Word: argumentive
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...sitting in class with 250 of your classmates around you,” Silvestri recounts, of the times he’s had his views challenged in a classroom. “They’d really be better off if they heard both sides of the argument...
...Which gets back to Tenet's own responsibility for what unfolded. At the heart of the book is a confession - but also an unconvincing argument. Tenet takes a lot of blame for the poor analysis of the prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. He explains how the CIA used unreliable sources and vague extrapolations to make a judgment about Saddam's arsenal that was little better than an educated guess. Nonetheless, Tenet says, he believed it. When it came time to make those conclusions public, the CIA (and everyone it was advising) wasn't very careful about...
Adrienne Shelly was murdered last November in her New York office. It was one of those stupefyingly banal crimes - the result of an argument with a construction worker - that preoccupy the tabloids and make the rest of us think long, hard and miserably about how thin and how carelessly drawn the line between life and death is. You leave home in the morning thinking about the weather, your dinner plans for the evening, the phone call you really don't want to return - and you don't come home. Ever...
...like most loops caused by self-reference, since there’s no feedback as in a noisy heavy metal performance or an infinite corridor of TV screens on videotape. So consciousness isn’t a regular loop; it’s a strange loop.Meanwhile, while presenting arguments of logic, clever bits of analogy here and there add up to reveal that the book itself is more than just a friendly essay: everywhere you turn, “Strange Loop” is drawing back on itself, too. For example, the book’s arguments are made almost...
...study, independent research, or thesis,” said Patricia Herzog, a former professor at Brandeis University. The discussion was intended to present a critical look at how humans perceive themselves in relation to animals, and what they can do to ethically treat animals. Panelists also criticized the argument that humans should be held to a different standard from animals. Martha C. Nussbaum, a visiting professor of law from the University of Chicago, pointed to recent research that indicated that elephants, like humans, have self-recognition. “Each type of animal has its own complexity, each type...