“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