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  • 20th century American writer
  • blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction
  • lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union
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  • critical liberal intellectual
  • honorary president of the American Humanist Association
  • known for his humanist beliefs
  • eight rules for writing a short story:
  • Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
  • Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
  • Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
  • Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
  • Start as close to the end as possible.
  • No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
  • Write to please just one person.
  • Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense.
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  • goddess
  • paradoxically both invisible and pink
  • supernatural beliefs are arbitrary
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  • inability to disprove
  • mutually exclusive attributes
  • because she is invisible, no one can prove that she does not exist (or indeed that she is not pink)
  • The Invisible Pink Unicorn is an illustration which attempts to demonstrate the absurdity of citing attributes and a lack of evidence as proof of a deity's existence.
  • Her two defining attributes, invisibility and color (pink), are inconsistent and contradictory; this is part of the satire.
  • The paradox of something being invisible yet having visible characteristics (e.g., color)
  • There are humorous mock debates amongst her "followers" concerning her other attributes, such as whether she is completely invisible, or invisible to most, but visible to those who have faith in her
  • Some arguments are quite elaborate and tortuous, satirizing the disputatiousness and intricacy of the theological debates that occur in many religions
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  • an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete, real event, or physical entity
  • it is the error of treating as a concrete thing something which is not concrete, but merely an idea
  • Another common manifestation is the confusion of a model with reality
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  • real life always differs from the model
  • reification is generally accepted in literature and other forms of discourse where reified abstractions are understood to be intended metaphorically
  • Reification may derive from an inborn tendency to simplify experience
  • the turning of something abstract into a concrete thing or object
  • Reification often takes place when natural or social processes are misunderstood and/or simplified
  • Reification can also occur when a word with a normal usage is given an invalid usage
  • When human-like qualities are attributed as well, it is a special case of reification, known as pathetic fallacy (or anthropomorphic fallacy)
  • the use of reification in logical arguments is usually regarded as a fallacy
  • usually philosophical or ideological
  • one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or "concrete" reality
  • the accidental error of mistaking the abstract for the concrete
  • constructs -- they are not directly observable
  • reification is the attribution of concrete characteristics to an abstract idea
  • Pathetic fallacy is also related to personification, which is a direct and explicit in the ascription of life and sentience to the thing in question, whereas the pathetic fallacy is much broader and more allusive.
  • a pathetic fallacy is when those characteristics are specifically human characteristics, thoughts, and feelings
  • The animistic fallacy involves attributing intention of a person to an event or situation
  • Reification is commonly found in rhetorical devices such as metaphor and personification
  • the fallacy occurs during an argument that results in false conclusions
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  • philosophy that fundamentally doubts authority and advocates transforming society by reform or revolution
  • advocates a radical redistribution of power from the coercive state to voluntary associations of free individuals
  • the advocacy of a government that is funded voluntarily and limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence
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  • protecting its citizens from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud
  • public assistance for the poor
  • commonly associated with those who have conservative positions on economic issues and liberal positions on social issues
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  • proclaimed religious freedom in the Roman Empire
  • signed by emperors Constantine I and Licinius
  • issued in AD 313
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    The Edict of Milan (Edictum Mediolanense) was a letter signed by emperors Constantine I and Licinius that proclaimed religious freedom in the Roman Empire.
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  • the capacity human beings have to make sense of things, to establish and verify facts, and to change or justify practices, institutions, and beliefs
  • a definitive characteristic of human nature
  • sometimes referred to as rationality
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  • Reason is closely identified with the ability to self-consciously change beliefs, attitudes, traditions, and institutions, and therefore with the capacity for freedom and self-determination
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  • Ethical Culture is premised on the idea that honoring and living in accordance with ethical principles is central to what it takes to live meaningful and fulfilling lives, and to creating a world that is good for all. Practitioners of Ethical Culture focus on supporting one another in becoming better people, and on doing good in the world.
  • Felix Adler said "Ethical Culture is religious to those who are religiously minded, and merely ethical to those who are not so minded."
  • if we relate to others in a way that brings out their best, we will at the same time elicit the best in ourselves
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  • By the "best" in each person, we refer to his or her unique talents and abilities that affirm and nurture life.
  • We use the term "spirit" to refer to a person’s unique personality and to the love, hope, and empathy that exists in human beings.
  • When we act to elicit the best in others, we encourage the growing edge of their ethical development, their perhaps as-yet untapped but inexhaustible worth.
  • Human Worth and Uniqueness – All people are taken to have inherent worth, not dependent on the value of what they do. They are deserving of respect and dignity, and their unique gifts are to be encouraged and celebrated.
  • Eliciting the Best – "Always act so as to Elicit the best in others, and thereby yourself"
  • we are all interrelated, with each person playing a role in the whole and the whole affecting each person
  • Our interrelatedness is at the heart of ethics.
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  • a god who dies and is resurrected or reborn, in either a literal or symbolic sense
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  • the study of meaning
  • focuses on the relation between signifiers, such as words, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for
  • often used in ordinary language to denote a problem of understanding that comes down to word selection or connotation
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  • the study of the theory and practice of interpretation
  • the study of the theory and practice of interpretation
  • study of the interpretation of written texts
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  • everything in the interpretative process
  • presuppositions
  • preunderstandings
  • analysis of texts for coherent explanation
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  • By 1659, Steno had decided not to accept a statement as true simply because it was written in a book, but rather to rely on his own research.
  • Fair is what we see, Fairer what we have perceived, Fairest what is still in veil
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