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Little is known about Sextus Empiricus. He likely lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens. [1] His Roman name, Sextus, implies he was a Roman citizen. [2] The Suda, a 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia, states that he was the same person as Sextus of Chaeronea, [3] as do other pre-modern sources, but this identification is commonly doubted. [4]
The Geological Society of America (GSA) concurs with assessments by the National Academies of Science (2005), the National Research Council (2006), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse‐gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the ...
Robert Gregg Bury (/ ˈ b j ʊər i /; 22 March 1869 – 11 February 1951) was an Irish Anglican clergyman, classicist, philologist, and a translator of the works of Plato and Sextus Empiricus into English.
Against the Ethicists, Sextus Empiricus, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-19-823620-7 Against the Logicians , Sextus Empiricus, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-53195-5 "Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists" , Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 052151391X , 9780521513913
Although the criterion argument applies to both deduction and induction, Weintraub believes that Sextus's argument "is precisely the strategy Hume invokes against induction: it cannot be justified, because the purported justification, being inductive, is circular." She concludes that "Hume's most important legacy is the supposition that the ...
The agency that carried out the deception was the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). [20] Ball introduces his book as "presented in the form of a journalistic investigation answering basic questions, Why, Who, What, Where, When, and How." [20] Ball's 2014 book The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science was along the same ...
An investigation by the UK scientific journal Nature published on 8 January 2020, found that eight James Cook University (JCU) studies on the effect of climate change on coral reef fish, one of which was authored by the JCU educated discredited scientist Oona Lönnstedt, had a 100 percent replication failure and thus none of the findings of the ...
He is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph, and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute. McKitrick has authored works about environmental economics and ones denying the scientific consensus on climate change , [ 1 ] including co-authoring the book Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming ...