10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERCREDULITY»
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overcredulity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
overcredulity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Do the Dead Depart?: And Other Questions
Such a book is undoubtedly a most useful " drag " upon overcredulity in
investigators. We must however keep a perfectly level head in these questions
and be on our guard also against overcredulity in explanations. Mr. Abbott has
been ...
Emily Katherine Bates, 1908
In themselves and as themselves, they are about as dangerous as a paint-brush
or a pen. The danger lies in overcredulity and superstition, neither of which is
confined to the use of these objects. When the counselors who appeal against
them ...
When the counselors who appeal against them have, in respect to overcredulity
and superstition, cast the beam out of their own eye, they may more effectively
help their brothers whose peril is the mote. At the same time, no danger is to be ...
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores ...
David Foster Wallace, 2009
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers
and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who
knows. Today's most engaged young fiction does seem like some kind of line's
end's ...
David Foster Wallace, 2009
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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at ...
Reasoning from existing conditions, one would have room for disappointment if
such forests were not discovered in the older rocks ; yet some authors seem to
believe that one is chargeable with overcredulity if he regard buried stumps as ...
7
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
It is perhaps hardly likely that the experienced medical officer will err on the side
of overcredulity toward questionable disabilities. But unfortunately the skeptical
attitude is sometimes overworked. Men have been undeservedly court-martialed
...
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Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
(2) No one knows any better than I do that the Society has to deal with an
obscure and difficult field of Research, in which gross fraud, overcredulity and
wild fanaticism are constantly being encountered and have to be countered if we
are to ...
American Society for Psychical Research, American Society for Psychical Research (1906- ), 1922
The reaction from the overcredulity of the day, indeed, swept the doctrine of a
coutagium vivum so completely out of existence that it was not revived for a
hundred years, though a few men here and there seem to have clung to it without
...
10
Skin grafting for surgeons and general practitioners
From sneering indifference, the surgical world then passed to overcredulity, in
which exaggerated notions were held regarding the possibilities of the discovery.
It was frequently stated that the new skin was identical with normal cuticle, and ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERCREDULITY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
overcredulity is used in the context of the following news items.
Killing David Foster Wallace
Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
The State of Risk in PoMo Verse
The new rebels would "risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama, overcredulity, softness, a willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers ... «Huffington Post, Oct 14»
Let's Talk About Love, by Carl Wilson: Review
Of overcredulity. Of softness.” In the wake of this kind of thinking — which created the context for such phenomena as The Believer magazine ... «National Post, Jun 14»
Hipsters in firing line in 2010's culture war
Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 10»
The Freakonomics duo tackles climate change -- and discovers the …
“At a minimum, they're guilty of extremely shoddy scholarship and overcredulity,” says Gavin A. Schmidt, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard ... «Boston Globe, Oct 09»
