“But the essential point is that, when perceived through the…

“But the essential point is that, when perceived through these social categories of perception, these principles of vision and division, the differences in practices, in the goods possessed, or in the opinions expressed become symbolic differences and constitute a veritable language.” The speaker is ___.

“In a word, the disciplines are the ensemble of minute techn…

“In a word, the disciplines are the ensemble of minute technical inventions that made it possible to increase the useful size of multiplicities by decreasing the inconveniences of the power which, in order to make them useful, must control them.” The speaker is ___.

“Something patently foreign and distant acquires, for one re…

“Something patently foreign and distant acquires, for one reason or another, a status more rather than less familiar. One tends to stop judging things either as completely novel or as completely well-known; a new median category emerges, a category that allows one to see new things, things seen for the first time, as versions of a previously known thing. In essence such a category is not only a way of receiving new information, it is also a method for controlling what seems to be a threat to some established view of things.” The speaker is ___.

The so-called ‘Euthyphro Dilemma’ asks if God commands good…

The so-called ‘Euthyphro Dilemma’ asks if God commands good things because they are good, or if the things God commands are good because he commands them. Why couldn’t a Divine Command Theorist accept the first ‘horn’ of the dilemma? That is, why couldn’t a Divine Command Theorist say that God commands us to do good things because they are good?

It is determined that the distribution X~N5, 1/10{“version”:…

It is determined that the distribution X~N5, 1/10{“version”:”1.1″,”math”:”X~N5, 1/10″}  needs to be used to complete a hypothesis test where α = 0.05. The test statistic is 4.81 and, using this distribution, it is determined that P x