Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
The American Party, known as the Native American Party before 1855 [a] and colloquially referred to as the Know Nothings, or the Know Nothing Party, was an Old Stock nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s. Members of the movement were required to say "I know nothing" whenever they were asked about its specifics by ...
Monty Hall problem, also known as the Monty Hall paradox: [2] An unintuitive consequence of conditional probability. Necktie paradox: A wager between two people seems to favour them both. Very similar in essence to the Two-envelope paradox. Proebsting's paradox: The Kelly criterion is an often optimal strategy for maximizing profit in the long ...
Ecclesiastes 9 is the ninth chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book contains the philosophical and theological reflections of a character known as Qoheleth, a title literally meaning "the assembler" but traditionally translated as "the Teacher" or "The Preacher". [3]
Foster dedicates an entire chapter to Shakespeare's influence: If you look at any literary period between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries, you'll be amazed by the dominance of the Bard. He's everywhere, in every literary form you can think of. And he's never the same: every age and every writer reinvents its own Shakespeare. [4]
The Daily Telegraph's Tanya Gold gave the book a 2 out of 5 star rating, writing that the novel could only be described as skillful if "you know nothing about the Holocaust, and if you wish to know nothing." She writes that the storyline about Gretel's life in the 1940s and '50s was the "valuable part of novel" but that other parts of the story ...
I know that I know nothing, a saying that is sometimes (somewhat inaccurately) attributed to Socrates; Socratic fallacy, the view that using a word meaningfully requires being able to give an explicit definition of it; Socratic intellectualism, the view that nobody ever knowingly does wrong
The convention closed the Ohio chapter and re-opened it under more moderate leadership. Delegates from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa, New England, and other Northern states bolted when a resolution declaring that no candidate that opposed prohibiting slavery north of the 36'30' parallel would be granted the nomination was voted down.