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...E THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189 SEMANTICS 191 CONFLICTSINVALUES 199 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT ...

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...ernet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org.... ...aw and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. The author has made an online version of this work a... ... 004.67 80112—dc22 2007050361 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for... ...or inspired counterparts. The Apple II was a blank slate, a bold de- parture from previous technology that had been developed and marketed to per- for... ...echnologies and a community ethos that secures the keys to those locks among groups with shared norms and a sense of public purpose, rather than in th... ...ing all communication. Others kept their machines plugged in and, working in groups, figured out how to kill the invading software and protect their ma... ...he endpoint computers infected by the worm were run and managed by disparate groups who answered to no single authority for their use, there was no wa... ... way that millions of dollars can go into production and marketing for a new musical recording 39 while a gifted unknown musician hums an original tun... ...t in preferred outlet. Mozart might have turned to painting if there were no musical instruments for which to compose, but there is no particular reas...

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