Office Of Assertion

Author : Scott F Crider
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497646766

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The Office of Assertion by Scott F Crider Pdf

A frivolous argument or inflated claim is often dismissed with the reply, “That’s just rhetoric!” But as Scott Crider explains in The Office of Assertion, the classical tradition of rhetoric is both a productive and a liberal art. The ability to employ rhetoric successfully can enable the student, as an effective communicator, to reflect qualities of soul through argument. In that sense, rhetoric is much more than a technical skill. Crider addresses the intelligent university student with respect and humor. This short but serious book is informed by both the ancient rhetorical tradition and recent discoveries concerning the writing process. Though practical, it is not simply a “how-to” manual; though philosophical, it never loses sight of writing itself. Crider combines practical guidance about how to improve an academic essay with reflection on the final purposes —educational, political, and philosophical—of such improvement.

Author : Scott F. Crider
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781684516308

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Office Of Assertion by Scott F. Crider Pdf

Scott F. Crider addresses the intelligent university student with respect and humor. A short but serious book of rhetoric, it is informed by both the ancient rhetorical tradition and recent discoveries concerning the writing process. Though practical, it is not simply a how-to manual; though philosophical, it never loses sight of writing itself. Crider combines practical guidance about how to improve an academic essay with reflection on the purpose - educational, political, and philosophical - of such improvement.

Author : Scott Forrest Crider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 1610171241

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The Office of Assertion by Scott Forrest Crider Pdf

Author : Sanford Goldberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198732488

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Assertion by Sanford Goldberg Pdf

Presents an account of the speech act of assertion and defends the view that it is answerable to a constitutive norm and is suited to explaining assertions connections to other philosophical topics.

Author : Harry D. Foster,Adam C. Krolnik,David J. Lacey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781441992284

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Assertion-Based Design by Harry D. Foster,Adam C. Krolnik,David J. Lacey Pdf

There is much excitement in the design and verification community about assertion-based design. The question is, who should study assertion-based design? The emphatic answer is, both design and verification engineers. What may be unintuitive to many design engineers is that adding assertions to RTL code will actually reduce design time, while better documenting design intent. Every design engineer should read this book! Design engineers that add assertions to their design will not only reduce the time needed to complete a design, they will also reduce the number of interruptions from verification engineers to answer questions about design intent and to address verification suite mistakes. With design assertions in place, the majority of the interruptions from verification engineers will be related to actual design problems and the error feedback provided will be more useful to help identify design flaws. A design engineer who does not add assertions to the RTL code will spend more time with verification engineers explaining the design functionality and intended interface requirements, knowledge that is needed by the verification engineer to complete the job of testing the design.

Author : Anthony Appiah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985-09-19
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521304113

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Assertion and Conditionals by Anthony Appiah Pdf

This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational, and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions. It promises to challenge a number of entrenched and widespread views about the relations of language and mind. Part I presents a functionalist account of belief, worked through a modified form of decision theory. In Part II the author generates a theory of meaning in terms of 'assertibility conditions', whereby to know the meaning of an assertion is to know the belief it expresses.

Author : R. McKinnon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137521729

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The Norms of Assertion by R. McKinnon Pdf

When we make claims to each other, we're asserting. But what does it take to assert well? Do we need to know what we're talking about? This book argues that we don't. In fact, it argues that in some special contexts, we can lie.

Author : Alyssan Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Persuasion (Rhetoric)
ISBN : 160051300X

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Rhetoric Alive by Alyssan Barnes Pdf

Author : Pamela E. Butler
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062501257

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Self-Assertion for Women by Pamela E. Butler Pdf

The bestselling assertiveness guide that shows women how to get what they want--reissued with a new preface by the author. Self-Assertion for Women offers practical advice with realistic sample dialogues and step-by-step exercises showing women how they can: learn to communicate clearly and effectively protect themselves from misread signals in public, as well as intimate, situations maintain professional authority without becoming aggressive deal appropriately with sexual harassment express positive and negative feelings without anxiety set boundaries and assert themselves freely while maintaining loving relationships idenify "assertiveness blind spots" Butler's strategies can be applied by all women in any situation that requires direct, effective, and positive action.

Author : Sanford C. Goldberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190675233

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The Oxford Handbook of Assertion by Sanford C. Goldberg Pdf

Assertions belong to the family of speech acts that make claims regarding how things are. They include statements, avowals, reports, expressed judgments, and testimonies - acts which are relevant across a host of issues not only in philosophy of language and linguistics but also in subdisciplines such as epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, and social and political philosophy. Over the past two decades, the amount of scholarship investigating the speech act of assertion has increased dramatically, and the scope of such research has also grown. The Oxford Handbook of Assertion explores various dimensions of the act of assertion: its nature; its place in a theory of speech acts, and in semantics and meta-semantics; its role in epistemology; and the various social, political, and ethical dimensions of the act. Essays from leading theorists situate assertion in relation to other types of speech acts, exploring the connection between assertions and other phenomena of interest not only to philosophers but also to linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, lawyers, computer scientists, and theorists from communication studies.

Author : Oliver James
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781409005575

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Office Politics by Oliver James Pdf

A fascinating exposé of office culture, in the style of the bestselling Affluenza, from popular psychologist Oliver James The modern working world is a dangerous place, where game-playing, duplicity and sheer malevolence are rife. Do talent and hard work count for nothing? Is politics everything? In this fascinating exposé, Oliver James reveals the murky underside of modern office life. With cutting-edge research and eye-opening interviews, he highlights the nasty practices that propel people to the top and shows how industries and cultures are fostering this behaviour. He then divulges strategies and techniques for not only surviving but thriving in these difficult environments. With the right mindset, you can distinguish and deal with toxic and overpromoted colleagues, charm your way through interviews and use office politics to your advantage. Office Politics will overthrow your perceptions of office life and set you on a new path to success. Oliver James trained and practised as a child clinical psychologist and, since 1988, has worked as a writer, journalist and television documentary producer and presenter. His books include Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture, the bestselling They F*** You Up, Affluenza and Contented Dementia. He is a trustee of two children's charities: the National Family and Parenting Institute and Homestart.

Author : R. E. Houser
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813232348

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Logic as a Liberal Art by R. E. Houser Pdf

In the twenty-first century there are two ways to study logic. The more recent approach is symbolic logic. The history of teaching logic since World War II, however, casts doubt on the idea that symbolic logic is best for a first logic course. Logic as a Liberal Art is designed as part of a minority approach, teaching logic in the "verbal" way, in the student's "natural" language, the approach invented by Aristotle. On utilitarian grounds alone, this "verbal" approach is superior for a first course in logic, for the whole range of students. For millennia, this "verbal" approach to logic was taught in conjunction with grammar and rhetoric, christened the trivium. The decline in teaching grammar and rhetoric in American secondary schools has led Dr. Rollen Edward Houser to develop this book. The first part treats grammar, rhetoric, and the essential nature of logic. Those teachers who look down upon rhetoric are free, of course, to skip those lessons. The treatment of logic itself follows Aristotle's division of the three acts of the mind (Prior Analytics 1.1). Formal logic is then taken up in Aristotle's order, with Parts on the logic of Terms, Propositions, and Arguments. The emphasis in Logic as a Liberal Art is on learning logic through doing problems. Consequently, there are more problems in each lesson than would be found, for example, in many textbooks. In addition, a special effort has been made to have easy, medium, and difficult problems in each Problem Set. In this way the problem sets are designed to offer a challenge to all students, from those most in need of a logic course to the very best students.

Author : Josef Pieper
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781681492919

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Leisure by Josef Pieper Pdf

One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act. Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world. Pieper shows that the Greeks and medieval Europeans, understood the great value and importance of leisure. He also points out that religion can be born only in leisure - a leisure that allows time for the contemplation of the nature of God. Leisure has been, and always will be, the first foundation of any culture. Pieper maintains that our bourgeois world of total labor has vanquished leisure, and issues a startling warning: Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture - and ourselves.

Author : Scott Crider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985565985

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The Art of Persuasion by Scott Crider Pdf

Introductory book on rhetoric

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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NICOMACHEAN ETHICS by Aristotle Pdf

�EVERY art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. But a certain difference is found among ends; some are activities, others are products apart from the activities that produce them. Where there are ends apart from the actions, it is the nature of the products to be better than the activities. Now, as there are many actions, arts, and sciences, their ends also are many; the end of the medical art is health, that of shipbuilding a vessel, that of strategy victory, that of economics wealth. But where such arts fall under a single capacity- as bridle-making and the other arts concerned with the equipment of horses fall under the art of riding, and this and every military action under strategy, in the same way other arts fall under yet others- in all of these the ends of the master arts are to be preferred to all the subordinate ends; for it is for the sake of the former that the latter are pursued. It makes no difference whether the activities themselves are the ends of the actions, or something else apart from the activities, as in the case of the sciences just mentioned.�