Nissen and his “Fool-Killer No. 3“

No Fool ' s Cold : Notes on Illusions of Possibility 1

A lot of philosophers are pessimistic about conceivability evidence. They think it doesn't prove, or even go very far towards justifying, interesting modal conclusions. A number of other philosophers are optimistic; they think it does justify, and perhaps even establish beyond a reasonable doubt, that lots of interesting things are possible. Nothing very surprising there. What is slightly surpr...

Virtual Community: No 'Killer Implication'

NEW MEDIA, NEW COMMUNITIES Thirty-five years after Licklider and Taylor (1968) first envisioned virtual communities, and exactly 10 years after Rheingold (1993) popularized the concept, online sociability is a fact of everyday life. According to a Pew Internet & American Life Project report (2001), 84 percent of all American internet users contacted an online group at least once and 79 percent ...

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A Fool with a Tool Is Still a Fool!

NOTE: This white paper was developed with input from the original ITIL set of documentation. Although the process terms have been updated to reflect the new names, and the process definition have been revised slightly, some of the definitions may not be 100% accurate.

Vol. 8, No. 3 , 2019