Indeed, it seems inevitable. A man who speaks of confusing opinions and wishes with facts when he probably means mistaking wishes and opinions for facts seems little likely to have either the power or the habit of thoughtful discrimination, which would protect him from mistaking his wishes and opinions, and even his pretenses, for facts. But that is an interesting lapse. That poor man must have felt, however inarticulately, that he didn t want to confuse his readers with facts. She is a hard case.
Silence is golden.
Or, if you prefer, Urban Studies are trash. This evil-tempered outburst was provoked by the excerpt reprinted below. It is the work of the mind of one Raye G. Richardson, associate professor of Urban Studies at San Francisco State. Literacy is the ability, in language , to make sense and to detect nonsense. It is the ability to devise understanding and reach judgment in a series of connected, coherent statements.