BASC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Miasma Theory, Thumb, Susan Sontag
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It has become easier to spill government secrets with the internet easier for whistleblowers. 9/11 allowed secret services and law enforcement to work in ways that potentially violates the 4th amendment: some of their actions may be legal under the patriot act but violates the. Each leaf is different but to simplify life we categorize everything: linguistic violence together, categories blind us from seeing the true individuality and actuality of things, truth and actual are different things. Actual connotation that everyone perceives it the same way. Truth singular and all encompassing tends towards the idea of the universal in terms of time, place, context, people: stronger sense of it is what it is . Tb used to be the disease of the romantics with a positive connotation. Lead to good sanitation: sanitary science was one of the reasons why the germ theory was adopted, animacular hypothesis was a barrier for the germ theory because it was old.