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"Terrific. .The dialogues are great fun. I sat back and enjoyed it." ---William H. Shaw "Total devastation Splendid book. An absolutely first class piece of work." ---Antony Flew Some say we can't really know anything, unless we first irrationally accept some things blindly on faith. Is that true? And what is truth, anyway? Is objective truth a bankrupt notion, as postmodernists say? They also say observations are always theory-laden and everything is socially constructed, "including giraffes." Of course, this means "all knowledge is essentially political," and "science is best seen as a socially constructed discourse that legitimates its power by presenting itself as truth." Worse than that, "there is no procedure called 'turning to the facts'.there is no procedure of 'justification in light of the facts' which can be opposed to consilience of one's own opinion with those of others." Rather, "the notion of accurate representation is simply an automatic and empty compliment we pay to beliefs which help us to do what we want to do." Unfortunately, postmodernists didn't get that way on account of ignoring the teachings of the Philosophy department, but on account of sincerely imbibing them. The terrible truth is that postmodernism is what happens when somebody who believes what he reads, reads the Philosophy canon. Avoiding technical jargon and presented in the form of a spirited dialogue between a professor and student, The Slightest Philosophy attacks what it sees as the real roots of postmodernism: the skeptical/anti-realist rut philosophy has been in since the eighteenth century. Opposing the canon from a position of naïve realism, the book's refutation of epistemological skepticism applies a method usually called abduction, or argument to the best explanation. The unexpected power of this pedestrian approach becomes apparent when it finally proves its mettle against philosophy's scariest monsters, including the Cartesian Demon, the Brain in the Vat, the Problem of the Criterion, and Hume's Riddle of Induction. Along the way, The Slightest Philosophy also provides a snappy introduction to the central controversies in philosophy. Not only will it make you laugh, it also renders compelling the unavoidable questions too often made to seem obscure. Rarely has epistemology seemed so accessible as in the hands of a writer Antony Flew called "never dull.".
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As children of feuding Derbyshire landowners, Mary Penley and Kit Stansell eloped against their families' wishes. But neither their ardor nor their marriage could survive their own restless natures. Nine years later, Kit is a rising star in the military while Mary has made her way in a raffish, intellectual society of poets and reformers. A chance meeting re-ignites their passion, but still they have very different values. Yet when Kit uncovers a political conspiracy that threatens all of England, they agree to put their differences aside. Amid danger and disillusionment, Kit and Mary rediscover the bonds that are stronger than time, the selves who have never really parted-and the love that is their destiny..
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Title: Not the Slightest Chance: The Defense of Hong Kong, 1941.(Book Review)
Author: P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Publication:Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 39 Issue: 2 Page: 432(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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Imagine you find a cliff where the voice of God can be heard, or, as a child, relive the terror of a bus driver gone insane. Imagine being the one left behind to watch your friends and loved ones leave. How would you survive the frozen kisses of some unearthly thing? Could you be a bystander and watch innocent children taken by a psychotic killer? Stay and witness what the dark side of the mind’s experiences in the glow of the harvest moon, or see what it sees in the deep blue of a snow-covered winter’s night. Amid this collection of short pieces of writing the delicate balance between what the world sees as sanity and insanity fades into the shadows. These blurry images create in our minds a world all their own. These stories exist somewhere between light and dark, good and evil, sane and insane; come, take a glimpse..
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While at home, I suddenly realised that from now on the target would be shooting back at me, and most probably more efficiently From the front line in the Second World War to logging in Canada, from welding in Australia to teaching in the Home Counties, Roy Davidson enjoyed an extraordinarily varied working life. Born in Manchester in the 1920s to Jack and Gertie, Roy's determination to make his own choices and to follow his own path led him away from his parents into frequent clashes with authority and some unusual career choices, all of which he describes in his witty and compelling memoir..
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