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    Rules of Thumb & General Laws

    Amazingly, there ARE useful generalisations. That is how we manage to get by. Over the years some of these generalisations have been gathered in systems, and at some point in this development people took to calling the result 'science'. No harm in the word, but it did suggest a pretty strange...
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    Rules of Thumb & General Laws

    Amazingly, there ARE useful generalisations. That is how we manage to get by. Over the years some of these generalisations have been gathered in systems, and at some point in this development people took to calling the result 'science'. No harm in the word, but it did suggest a pretty strange...
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    rescuing rhetoric

    Brutes and Rhetors The pejorative use of 'rhetoric' is in itself a piece of low grade rhetoric. It is just one of a myriad ways of dodging the subject. Of flinging mud at your opponent, instead of answering his points. Rhetoric is power and power is a frightful thing. Now when you brand...
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