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• As for the European far left, it has very little to do with Marxism-Leninism these days. It has more to do with anti-Semitism, racism, anti-migration. They claim to be left-wing but they're espousing positions which would actually be classically brown.

  Toomas Hendrik Ilves

  Wings, Racism, Littles

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

  Michael Helm

  Writing, Able, Love Poetry

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mr. [Donald] Trump, for five years, you perpetuated a false claim that the nation's first black president was not a natural-born citizen. You questioned his legitimacy. In the last couple of weeks, you acknowledged what most Americans have accepted for years: The president was born in the United States.

  Lester Holt

  Couple, Years, Black

  The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• We also have to intensify our air strikes against ISIS and eventually support our Arab and Kurdish partners to be able to actually take out ISIS in Raqqa, end their claim of being a Caliphate.

  Hillary Clinton

  Isis, Air, Support

  "Trump vs. Clinton: Full Transcript Of First Presidential Debate 2016". www.ibtimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its parties is representative of the political opinions among the citizens. It is reasonable to claim that the people rule itself through the political institutions.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Country, Party, Political Opinions

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is not reasonable to claim that the people rules itself through the political institutions. In comparison, I find that the standard European system is better, also as a model for global democracy.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Party, Two, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.

  James W. Loewen

  Important, Textbooks, Being True

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• Donald Trump represents the same rigged system that he claims he's going to change.

  Hillary Clinton

  Trump, Rigged

  Source: time.com

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• One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics of failure, and the way in which all the things that you claim or that you try for are already based on the limits of language.

  Martha Ronk

  Writing, Trying, Way

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to make that clear. It's my vision of what I think their life is. I don't think there are empirical truths in that regard.

  Cass McCombs

  Thinking, Vision, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse, for basically barbarism and death. These are people who kill children, kill Muslims, take sex slaves - there's no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Sex, Children

  CNN Presidential Town Hall: America’s Military and The Commander and Chief, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 28, 2016.

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• There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect of nature.

  Jonathon Keats

  Car, Buckminster Fuller, Aspect

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an example; it claims that God created life on earth within the past 10,000 to 50,000 years. But other types of theism are different.

  Elliott Sober

  Past, Years, Example

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Deism claims that God creates the universe and the laws of nature and then is hands-off, with everything that subsequently happens in nature being due to natural processes.

  Elliott Sober

  Hands, Law, Natural

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right.

  Elliott Sober

  Theory, Circumstances, Shows

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection.

  Elliott Sober

  Ideas, Littles, Ancestry

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).

  Elliott Sober

  Pain, Mind, Different

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.

  Elliott Sober

  Believe, Numbers, Use

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.

  Elliott Sober

  Thinking, Goal, Doe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Rather, the collapsing between act and condition, "I am" with "I do," feels like authenticity, an authenticity of being. The muse rewarded me for a few months, after April of 2012, by giving me poems, almost a poem each day, that I can claim as coming from my writer's status.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Giving, Each Day, Months

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• You notice that the Democrats are totally unified. I mean, you know they're dragging Algore back out? Algore is being dragged out of the Apple boardroom and wherever else he hangs out to go and rally Millennials on the premise that Millennials will respond to Algore's claim that we are destroying the planet and that he will get their attention.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Apples, Millennials

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Every time Donald Trump thinks things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is, is rigged against him.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Trump, Rigged

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• The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxes, the women who are coming after him or his preposterous claims of being against the Iraq war, he cannot resist.

  James Fallows

  War, Iraq, Wealth

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.

  Adam Hochschild

  Thinking, Political Differences, Want

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?

  Mitch Albom

  Sexy, Children, Issues

  Source: www.npr.org

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