Author: Peter Baofu

Are the visual arts really so central in our time that, as Doug Adams once said, people under 60, raised on television remember by what they see. ...

Are the performing arts really supposed to be so radical that, as John Cage once said in the context of music, there is no noise, only sound, since...

Are natural resources really so limited that, as Mahatma Gandhi once famously said, Earth provides enough to satisfy every man''s need, but not ev...

What makes the rule of law so special that it is to conscientiously punish the bad doers and reward the good onessuch that, where there is the rule...

What exactly is so appealing in formal science, such that its influence can be seen in numerous disciplines nowadays, for practical purposes like b...

Is peace really so precious that it is popularly viewed in irenology (peace studies) of our time as natural and a prime force in human behavior ...

Is waste (or trash) really so useless that, as William Faulkner once wrote, [r]ead everythingtrash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it....

Is semantics really so indeterminate that, as W. V. Quine (1960) once argued in Word and Object, in the example about a previously undocumented, pr...

Is public administration so effective that, as William Poole once wrote, it is highly desirable that policy practice be formalised to the maximum ...

Is public administration so effective that, as William Poole once wrote, it is highly desirable that policy practice be formalised to the maximum ...

Is it really true that, as the Roman philosopher Seneca famously said in antiquity, It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters ? (TE ...

Is it really true that, as the Roman philosopher Seneca famously said in antiquity, It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters ? (TE ...

Is the traditional understanding of cause and effect in aetiology so certain that Arthur Eddington therefore proposed in 1927 the arrow of time, o...

Is the nature of the atmosphere really so predictable that, as James Mahoney confidently said, we know that humans are influencing the climate. Th...

Is the nature of the atmosphere really so predictable that, as James Mahoney confidently said, we know that humans are influencing the climate. Th...

Is the degree of probability that an individual holds when betting on a particular outcome really so subjective that, as Frank Ramsey once argued, ...