Word: disproof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...games out in August. Charlie Dressen, Dodgers manager, proclaiming "the Giants is dead." New York papers involved in a grammatical argument over whether Dressen should have said "is dead" or "are dead"--but not doubting the veracity of his statement. Sweet disproof; a three-game playoff; Bobby Thomson's important moment (the eternal antidote to Bill Buckner's legs...
...refutation of the philosophy of nonviolence to point out that its successes are terribly rare and difficult. Nonviolence as a moral theory is simply not subject to such empirical disproof. The principled rejection of violence is endowed with a nobility that is, if anything, enhanced by its impracticality, by the fact that its practitioners knowingly expose themselves to danger and worse. It is because of this noble impracticality that in America pacifism (of the conscientious objector, for example) evokes at once respect and curiosity...
...procedure is double-edged. Oxford's J.L. Mackie, perhaps the ablest of today's atheistic philosophers, offers nonsupernatural explanations for such evidence, and raises the problem, as old as the Book of Job, of evil. The existence of evil is no "knockdown disproof of an omnipotent and wholly good God," he says, but it does make God , improbable. Plantinga renovates the theist's classic reply to this: the free will argument. Examining whether a semifictional, corrupt Boston mayor would have taken smaller bribes in other "possible worlds," he argues that even an all-powerful God cannot create...