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    A gadfly is a person who interferes with the status quo of a society or community by posing novel, potentially upsetting questions, usually directed at...
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  • Look up gadfly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gadfly most commonly refers to: Horse fly or botfly Gadfly (philosophy and social science), a person...
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  • formal sciences and natural sciences are considered hard science, whereas the social sciences and other sciences are described as soft science. Precise...
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    any approach to humanities and social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to attempt to reveal, critique, and challenge or dismantle power...
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  • people and angels that who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart, were condemned to be stung eternally by wasps and gadflies. Theodore...
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    Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known...
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    Socratic method (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
    century BC, sophists were teachers who specialized in using the tools of philosophy and rhetoric to entertain, impress, or persuade an audience to accept the...
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    Howard (2007). Theories of scientific method: an introduction. Philosophy and science. Vol. 2. Montréal: McGill–Queen's University Press. doi:10.4324/9781315711959...
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    Boethius' most famous book The Consolation of Philosophy is a Socratic dialogue in which Lady Philosophy interrogates Boethius. St. Augustine St. Augustine's...
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    married the Polish scientist and revolutionary Wilfrid Michael Voynich and was the author of the novel The Gadfly. Philosophy portal Mathematics portal Biography...
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    Richard Rorty (category American social democrats)
    about truth and other matters with a later Wittgensteinian philosophy of language, which declares that meaning is a social-linguistic product, and sentences...
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    Robert Reich (category American philosophers of social science)
    2012. Gelles, David (November 20, 2017). "Robert Reich, a Multiplatform Gadfly, Comes to Netflix". New York Times. "Robert Reich teaching at UC Berkeley...
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  • Apology for the Gadfly". BLOGOS. Retrieved 2019-05-29. Greco, John; Zagzebski, Linda (2000). "Two Kinds of Intellectual Virtue". Philosophy and Phenomenological...
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    Rainis (category Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party politicians)
    and lyric poetry, and translating literature. Together with Stučka he edited a collection of epigrams and satire, Mazie dunduri (The Small Gadflies)...
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    Carol Tavris (category American social psychologists)
    Supplement, Scientific American, and other publications. In 2014 she began writing a column for Skeptic under the heading The Gadfly. In an interview with The...
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    Virtue ethics (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
    ethics has a number of contemporary applications. Social and political philosophy Within the field of social ethics, Deirdre McCloskey argues that virtue ethics...
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    colleges' annually published yearbook; the Gadfly, a biannual journal of popular philosophy produced by undergraduates; and Rhapsody in Blue, an undergraduate...
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  • Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound. Nation Books. p. 52. ISBN 9781560259695. There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim...
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    Jeremy Rifkin (category Writers about activism and social change)
    Thompson, Dick (December 4, 1989). "The Most Hated Man in Science: To some 'The Abominable No Man,' Gadfly Jeremy Rifkin Warns of the Dangers of Uncontrolled...
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    2011. Chang, Kenneth; Leary, Warren (25 Sep 2005). "Serge Lang, 78, a gadfly and mathematical theorist". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 Oct 2011. "Paul...
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  • From Bauhaus to Our House (category Farrar, Straus and Giroux books)
    Book World. The Washington Post. In Shomette 1992. "Tom Wolfe: The Great Gadfly". The New York Times. 20 December 1981. Kramer, Hilton (October 1981). "Tom...
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    has quotations related to Jonathan Mitchell. Media related to Jonathan Mitchell at Wikimedia Commons Official website Autism's Gadfly, Mitchell's blog...
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  • Semiotic Studies, International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies, International Social Science Council (1996). Semiotica, Volume 105. Mouton...
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    News-Times (February 4, 2008). Milbank, Dana (July 22, 2005). "The Reformer and the Gadfly Agree on Health Care". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 22, 2010....
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  • Jewish News. Knepper, P. (2005). "Michael Polanyi and Jewish Identity". Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 35 (3): 263–293. doi:10.1177/0048393105277986...
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    fading science literacy. To sort the table, click the arrow in any header cell. Literature portal Books portal List of books about philosophy List of...
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  • Funeral games Funeral oration Funerary monument for an athlete Gaddi Torso Gadfly (mythology) Gaia Galanthis Galatea (Greek myth) Galatea (mythology) Galaton...
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    George Bernard Shaw (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
    Brassbound's Conversion Adaptation The Gadfly Short play The Man of Destiny Shaw's first three full-length plays dealt with social issues. He later grouped them...
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  • award categories replaced "Nonfiction": Arts and Letters; History and Biography; Science, Philosophy and Religion. For the next twenty years there were...
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    Leela Gandhi (category Indian social sciences writers)
    Chronicle. Retrieved 21 September 2021. "'Civil society is like a Socratic gadfly to the state'". The Indian Express. 24 April 2015. Retrieved 27 January...
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