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First Impressionism can be misleading
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In terms of artistic blockbusters, nothing sells like
Impressionism. This familiar rule was proved yet again this summer
with record-breaking attendance at Monet: The Seine and The Sea,
staged by the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh's
refurbished Royal Scottish Academy. So what better way to follow
Monet than with Degas, perhaps the second most famous Impressionist?
Edgar Degas takes centre stage in the second NGS show in the
refurbished building, which opens next week, running concurrently
with a show by two Scottish exhibiting societies. But there is a
twist in the tale, for ...
 "Skeptic (Altadena, CA)")
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A kernel of doubt. (agnosticism)
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The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast
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Platform agnosticism.(EDITOR'S Message)(Editorial)
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Would journalist David Staples please stop imposing his agnosticism on the rest of us.
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; ...wrong. The technical name for this philosophical position is agnosticism. Dirk is wrong because he claims to have answers, to know...Staples has two habits that will surely prove fatal to his agnosticism. He observes, and he reasons. We'd be willing to bet...
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Can Agnosticism Improve American Public Life?(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry
; ...not only be the most correct in our time, but also the most ethical. Until the American public faces up to the fact that agnosticism is an equally sincere answer to the great religious question of our lives, and until the American public comes to recognize...
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GOULD V. HUXLEY AGNOSTICISM.
Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
; ...society and human condition is the application of reason and self-correction in both areas." Huxley wrote in 1889 ("Agnosticism and Christianity" The Nineteenth Century, 25:937-8): This [agnostic] principle may be stated in various ways...
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Gould v. Huxley agnosticism
Magazine article from: Skeptic
; ...better society and human condition is the application of reason and self-correction in both areas" Huxley wrote in 1889 ("Agnosticism and Christianity" The Nineteenth Century, 25:937-8): This [agnostic] principle may be stated in various ways...
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