Making small talk is a way to start a conversation with a stranger when meeting for the first time. It isn't easy to make small talk with people. You don't know. Sitting by yourself and saying nothing at a party is rude. Making small talk is necessary to build business relations. Mak...
In politics, in business, in health advice. The Oxford Dictionary's word of 2016 was "post-truth." And the recognition that we now live in a post-truth world has led to a much needed emphasis on checking the facts. But the punch line of my talk is that just checking the facts is...
1、U1Part 1 Long Conversations(每小题:2分)Her first big art project in college.Her final grade in art.Her new college life.Her strong love for art.She has always been successful in art class.She drew wonderful pictures of a cat when young.She is already as mature as other university ...
which means "you too" in Latin and involves charging your accuser with whatever it is you've just been accused of rather than refuting the truth of the accusation made against you. Tu quoque is considered to be a logical fallacy, because whether or ...
She believes that, in a time of fake news, deepfakes, and post-truth politics, data literacy is more important than ever. Everyone should become data literate. Everyone should teach kids how to be data literate and ask important questions about the data and the world around them. In the ...
Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. —Oscar Wilde 43 American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome. —Jack Germond 41 Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has...
Together, they unpack Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden, why certain groups are planning to vote against their own interests, and how Tucker Carlson's web browser history may be impacting his politics. Fortunately we can all exhale next week. Or not. Rate S2.E14 ∙ Tight Values, ...
Comparative Politics Comparative politics takes an empirical approach to teaching types of constitutions, political actors, legislature, and so on from an intrastate perspective. In essence, this means that the field is concerned with observing the role and truth of a society based, in part, on in...
In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt A Prince, whose character is ... marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People. Thomas Jefferson Declaration of ...
In logic an argument consists of a set of statements, thepremises, whosetruthsupposedly supports the truth of a single statement called the conclusion of the argument. An argument is deductively valid when the truth of the premises guarantees the truth of the conclusion; i.e., the conclusion ...