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Gambling Fallacy
The Fallacy of Winning in GamblingPeople often have inaccurate perceptions about random processes. For example, basketball fans and players tend to believe the chances of an individual player scoring a basket are greater if the player was successful ...
individualism
Self-Reliance And Individualism In recent decades of Emerson and Thoreau scholarship, there have been primarily two ways of situating the political orientation of their and especially Emerson’s writing: the first, and most widely held, ...
liberalarts
Professional vs. Liberal Arts: A CriticalPerspectiveThe debate between the relative value of a pure liberal arts education and one that combines the liberal arts with professional experience has been fueling academic fires for decades. Some believe ...
Linguistical Determinism
Linguistic Relativism and Linguistic Determinism AnalysisBenjamin Lee Whorf, a student of the noted anthropologist and linguist Edward Sapir, was a fire insurance investigator as well as a linguist. He was struck by the way that labels could ...
Plato and Aristotle
Plato and Aristotle Worlds’ AnalysisThe Platonic method of philosophizing can be described as the method of modeling the properties of existing beings on the abstractions of the human intellect. In other words, it is the method of thinking ...
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The RenaissanceThe “rebirth” of art, religion, and education in Europe is known as the Renaissance. We shall begin the study of the Renaissance with the last quarter of the thirteenth century. Not that the Middle Ages ended at this time ...
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