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“Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.”

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Anne Spencer was an American poet born on February 6, 1882, and died on July 27, 1975. Her poetry is known for its deep emotion and delicate portrayal of nature. more

“Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes--as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons.”

Source: To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

“It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy are all instances of inductive reasoning. (Detectives typically induce, rather than deduce.) None of these things can be done separately from each other, or from anything else. They are pseudo-categories.”

Done Problem Difficult Circumstances Concepts Instance Reasoning Categories Problem Solving Detectives Analogies Pseudo Deductions Inference

Book:To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

Source: To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

“Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.”

People Thinking Law Politics Trust Upstairs

Author:Warren Beatty

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