http://english.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/writing/276/ en-us 2007-02-06T13:05:04-05:00 http://english.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/writing/276/archives/000308.html It has been argued that women don't show up in history books much because traditional history is the history of conquest and power, and women aren't much for conquest, and therefore don't have much power. Although oversimplified, this claim has... sdelagrange 2007-02-06T13:05:04-05:00 http://english.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/writing/276/archives/000306.html Today, two quotes about science, thought and language: At the heart of [scientific inquiry] is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes - an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, and the most ruthlessly skeptical... sdelagrange 2007-02-01T08:39:54-05:00 http://english.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/writing/276/archives/000304.html Having looked at the Sophists and at Plato's opinion of their work, we can see that the reputation of rhetoric as deceitful goes back at least 2,500 years. That raises several questions. Is it rhetoric that is at fault, or... sdelagrange 2007-01-28T18:16:39-05:00 http://english.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/writing/276/archives/000302.html Man is the measure of all things; of things that are not, that they are not; of things that are, that they are. (Protagoras) Nothing exists. If anything did exist, we could not know it. If we could know that... sdelagrange 2007-01-16T09:37:12-05:00 http://english.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/writing/276/archives/000300.html Philosopher Richard Weaver coined the expressions "god term" and "devil term." According to Foss, a god term would be "a term to which the highest respect is paid in a culture." A good current example might be "patriot" as a... sdelagrange 2007-01-09T09:52:32-05:00 http://english.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/writing/276/archives/000298.html 1. the art or study of using language effectively and persuasively. 2. Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous.... sdelagrange 2007-01-04T09:17:15-05:00