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...central method that has been used is the breaking down of complex concepts into simpler components. To take a typical philosophical example, one might start to wonder what ‘knowledge’ is. That is, what would the world have to be like for it to be true that I know that Tony Blair is Prime Minister? After a great deal of cogitation, philosophers returned the answer that...

...Central Park to oppose the nuclear arms race, in one of the biggest protests in US history. Massive anti-nuclear demonstrations also took place in the UK and elsewhere in Europe in the autumn of 1983, when the film was broadcast. We are also seeing significant anxieties around climate change today that have a strong resemblance to those around nuclear weapons in the early...

...central powers. Recent revisions In recent years this post-Fischer consensus has in turn been revised. Historians have returned to the arguments of the interwar years, focusing for example on Russia’s and France’s role in the outbreak of war, or asking if Britain’s government really did all it could to try and avert the war in 1914. Germany’s and