Over 900 of the most common legal terms and definitions derived from A Dictionary of Basic Law Terms, sources from Practical Law, and Black's Law dictionary.
4 months ago

Should healthcare professionals use the term 'patient'? A patient is a social construct, in a biomedical model, in which each actor has...
6 months ago

Sensationalism has a new home. Formerly it was associated only with the fundamentalist; now it has come to nest in the liberal pulpit.
1 month ago

This morning, Merriam-Webster declared "gaslighting" its 2022 Word of the Year. M-W's popular dictionary defines gaslighting as:...
22 months ago

AI Ethics. AI ethics – the ethics of artificial intelligence – refers to both the development of AI and the AI product itself. Given the role of AI in our...
19 months ago

Among many various philosophical feelings are those relating to the world as a whole, to the laws of existence, to human nature.
121 months ago

How often have you been reading something quite pleasant and suddenly the author drops the fateful word – postmodernism? The argument begins to get fuzzy.
9 months ago

Whether you are reading a scientific paper, a musical score, a DIY manual, text on an art gallery wall, or a 20-page terms and conditions...
18 months ago

Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Blue Book, chastised philosophers for what he called “our craving for generality.” Philosophers (including the...
79 months ago

Fancy words go in and out of fashion, positing an existential temptation to overuse.The late 1990s gave us “literally.
57 months ago