He then gives a targeted investigation of the different techniques of establishing fixed belief. Depicting belief to be "of the nature of a habit ", Pierce rejects what he calls the method of tenacity, noting that numerous people lean toward satisfaction to truth and will maintain a strategic distance from uncertainty once they have settled upon a consoling belief; accordingly, periodic conviction is liable to coherent error. ... He notes, nonetheless, that government (and other social foundations) at last commands truth as indicated by it engages instead of to the respectability of rationale...

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As Zeus clarifies his opinion of hero Odysseus to his daughter Athena, who is seeking his help in protecting the suffering him from the ceaseless danger he has encountered, he proclaims, " 'Great Odysseus who excels all men in wisdom, excels in offerings too he gives the immortal gods who rule the vaulting skies?'... When King Alcinous addresses the people of Phaeacia speaking of Odysseus' journey back to Ithaca, he compares the mighty Odysseus to the gods themselves, he notes, " 'Always, up to now, they came to us face-to-face whenever we'd give them grand, ...

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Whilst they claim that a meritocratic society gives high reward (financially and status-wise) to motivate the most gifted and inequality means those disadvantaged wish to improve on their position, there is much resentment over "fat-cat" pay packets in today's world. ... Crompton (1998) gives the example of him identifying numerous class such as the industrial and petty bourgeoisie, financiers and "lumpenproletariat" in his account of "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" (1962). ... Note : the key Marxist theory is based on industrial capitalism, and thus could be seen as som...

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People in this community, especially sex workers, are at the highest risk for police violence and violence in general.2 To initiate reform and lower the rate of violence in the trans community, detailed reports are used to give accurate data and representation of the problem at hand. ... In the report by the NCTE, a chapter called "Reforming Police and Ending Anti-Transgender Violence" gives a brief intro into the problem at hand, noting that in the LGBT community "nearly 3 out of 4 of lethal crimes [are] committed against trans women and girls," and when they seek refuge in the police "2...

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If we are to see in the Pequod under Ahab a symbol of the teleocratic state, of the state conceived as a mechanism for achieving a substantive purpose [note oakeshott phrase earlier], we first need to identify precisely what distinguishes the hunting of Moby-Dick from the hunting of sperm whales generally, and why this difference points towards two essentially different visions of the state. ... Similarly, Starbuck does not see whaling as an end in itself, but merely as a means to his own ends-quite conventionally domestic ones, if we give weight to his wistful imagination of his homecoming,...

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