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Coming tomorrow, Alberto will grace us with his take on some debt ceiling ads that are playing on the air waves. This is an appeal to ridicule as it calls into question the sanity of the House Republicans.
Thursday, July 30, 2009. I hope everyone is having a great summer. Mine has been extremely busy, but I still plan on keeping up with this blog as much as possible. Thursday, June 18, 2009. Pre-Nurse Practitioner Certification Exam Anxiety. Today, I also ran into a really cool blog written by a family nurse practitioner in New York,. 1 I, many tim.
Thursday, January 29, 2009. Does a great job of explaining this fallacy, so I will paraphrase their entry with my own example. Loaded words carry an evaluative meaning along with a descriptive meaning. A word that only has a descriptive meaning is fairly value neutral; it expresses no judgment in favor or against the object or entity it describes. A loaded word, however, carries a value judgment along with its descriptive element. For a further examination of loaded words, see The Fallacy Files entry.