“Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.” IfsMenWayMeanAbleDifficultClassFateSecurityParticularReadyNeededPeriodsStandardsClaimsFormerUniformsMinimumPrivilegedAvoidingAssuranceAdjustmentFree ManSecuredLapses Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“For the assertion that "There is no God" is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that "There is a God." Therefore, the former assertion requires justification just as the latter does.” DoeClaimsFormerLatterJustificationAssertionThere Is No God Author:William Lane Craig
“Former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, talk show Rush Limbaugh claim - " don't you love that, they "claim." I'm not claiming anything. I'm saying. Anyway. " - that Black Lives Matter exacerbates tensions and sows racial divides." How can that even be debatable?” MatterShowsBlackNew YorkClaimsFormerTensionDividesGovernorsBlack Lives MatterMayorsAlaskaPalinTalk ShowsBlack LivesRudy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.” ThinkingDoeGoalFailingAchieveTheoryEvidenceArgumentClaimsStatementsObservationFormerLatterMetaphysicalEpistemologyThesisScientific Theory Author:Elliott Sober
“Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.” SupportLandClaimsUnionsWestRussiaFormerRebelSovietSoviet UnionPutinUkraineSanctionsImpunity Author:Mike Pence
“So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.” DoeInfluenceMembersConcernedClaimsPropertyFormerRepublicSerbiaKosovoYugoslaviaPrivatization Author:Ibrahim Rugova
“Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice.” LongHas BeensStatesFactsPoliticalSocialJusticeUnitedViewsPowerfulUnited StatesGroupsTheoryTypeMembersEmpowermentStandingClaimsStructureWestCriticalResistanceDespiteInequalityFormerElitesIncapableLatinoSocial StructureSocial InequalitySocial Theory Book:Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice Source: Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice