The Borzoi College ReaderThis highly regarded, thematic reader for freshman composition offers students an introduction to issues in the arts and sciences. It includes a good balance of classic and contemporary selections from mixed genres and provides a wide range of viewpoints and voices. The readings are supported by introductions to each theme and individual headnotes. |
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... ideas into question . But information does not create ideas ; by itself , it does not validate or invali- date them . An idea can only be generated , revised , or unseated by another idea . A culture survives by the power , plasticity ...
... ideas into question . But information does not create ideas ; by itself , it does not validate or invali- date them . An idea can only be generated , revised , or unseated by another idea . A culture survives by the power , plasticity ...
Page 206
... ideas and data which the cult of information has done so much to obscure . Let us take one of the master ideas of our society as an example : All men are created equal . The power of this familiar idea will not be lost on any of us ...
... ideas and data which the cult of information has done so much to obscure . Let us take one of the master ideas of our society as an example : All men are created equal . The power of this familiar idea will not be lost on any of us ...
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... ideas like these , some old , some new , some rising to prominence , some declining into obsolescence . Because those I list here in terse formulations are verbal ideas , they might easily be mistaken for intended statements of fact ...
... ideas like these , some old , some new , some rising to prominence , some declining into obsolescence . Because those I list here in terse formulations are verbal ideas , they might easily be mistaken for intended statements of fact ...
Contents
On Writing | 1 |
Anaïs Nin from The Personal Life Deeply Lived | 12 |
Thinking about Thinking | 19 |
Copyright | |
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