Abortion Quote by Stanley Fish

“I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.”

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We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

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“Justification, after all, confers value on an activity from a perspective outside its performance. An activity that cannot be justified is an activity that…

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Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

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Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how…

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Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into…

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Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you…

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“In his great book How to Do Things with Words (1962), J.L. Austin considers the apparently simple sentence "France is hexagonal." He asks if…

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“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of…

Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974

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