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Tag Archives: argument
Aristotle, Joshua Bell, and Persuasion
Watch the video. Then I’ll have a few words about this after the jump.
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Tagged argument, Aristotle, Conor Neill, joshua bell, music, persuasion, video
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Required Reading: Statistics and Inferences
In a blog post on the New York Times‘ site today, Nate Silver raises cautions about the use of statistical evidence in an argument that could be very useful to us. He’s discussing the debate before the Supreme Court right … Continue reading
Two Spaces Forward, One Back
One of my pet peeves is when people are writing and double-space at the end of a sentence. This in fact was a rule once upon a time, when typewriters used monospaced type. Slate’s Farhad Manjoo wrote a screed about this … Continue reading
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Tagged argument, argument from authority, Farhad Manjoo, James Harbeck, punctuation, Slate, typography, usage
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The Battle Over Homework
Louis Menand, essayist and editor for The New Yorker, and author of the brilliant book The Metaphysical Club, reports that French president François Hollande intends to abolish homework in his country. He takes this opportunity to look at some research on whether … Continue reading
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Tagged argument, France, homework, Louis Menand, persuasion, research, school
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Gallagher-Corvino Debate
Here is the BookTV debate on gay marriage that we watched in class. If you’re interested in learning more about either Maggie Gallagher or John Corvino, or about their book, or the issue overall, here are some additional links for … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Sullivan, argument, gay marriage, john corvino, maggie gallagher, persuasion, Rod Dreher
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Argument and the Dangers of Certainty
As some of you know, I’ve been reading a bit about the New England witchcraft crisis of the late 17th Century, and recently recommended Mary Beth Norton’s work in general. So it was serendipidous that Andrew Sullivan linked to this … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Sullivan, argument, Ben Shattuck, Mary Beth Norton, Salem, witchcraft
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PBS, Fox News, and Trustworthy Sources
Public Policy Polling has released a poll they conducted of what television sources people trust. Interestingly, PBS is the source that the most people trust, while Fox News was listed as the #1 “most trusted” source and the #1 “least … Continue reading
The Straw Man
Without necessarily endorsing the politics behind it, I thought I’d share this blog post by Jonathan Chait at the New Republic. Chait argues that MSNBC commentator Joe Scarborough is guilty of using a straw man in a recent editorial. Reading … Continue reading
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