Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.
When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.
Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.
Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.
Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.
Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.
Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political- economic system goes. In other words, we should not approve any nominee whose extreme judicial philosophy would undermine rights and liberties relied upon by all Americans.
It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig. . . Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.
We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.
In the future, we will play games while floating naked in a tank of warm, sensory-depriving gelatin. Games will be distributed chemically, into the gelatin, and absorbed into the player's skin. The gelatin will be Lingonberry-flavored, and the games will encourage good citizenship.