Word: answering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent age he lived in?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher, because his thoughts was merely a reflection of conditions around him colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the grounds that his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse...
...something for the wives. So I decided to offer what I had-my houses." Although Marello declares that he will make "absolutely no use" of the astronauts' names, it is unlikely that NASA will allow the girls to accept the generous offer. In the past, the answer has always been: "Thanks, but no thanks...
Throughout the hearing, although he asked probing questions of the witnesses, the senator assured them that they did not have to answer anything they preferred not to answer...
...this century, a series of expeditions, including one in 1956 led by Norway's ever-enterprising Thor Heyerdahl, have attempted unsuccessfully to answer these familiar questions. The latest expedition was led by a French ethnologist, Francis Maziere, who in 1963 took himself, his Polynesian wife and an adventurous friend to Easter Island for a nine-month stay. In this translation of his absorbing though frequently perfervid text, Maziere describes discoveries that seem to open a crack into the heart of the prehistoric puzzle. In doing so, however, he had inadvertently generated another mystery: were the discoveries made by Maziere...