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Sarah Sherman

Due 12/19/08

Critical Fem Studies

Professor Dalke

On Feminism and Sex Work

"If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution."

-Emma Goldman

Why must there be a distinction between truth and falsity, reality and fantasy, or as Harry Frankfurt puts it, between truth and bullshit? I do not argue that one must accept the notion of a single external reality that everyone participates in order to discuss mental health, I argue that one must accept that notion to discuss anything at all. Correspondence theory of truth, where terms and their definitions are attempts at pointing to things that exist outside of us (facts) in an external reality, is the only way we can speak to one another with a shared vocabulary. The term corresponds to the objective reality. What form the term/sign takes is

With local foods rapidly appearing infarmers’ market and supermarkets across the United States, buying local hasbecome the newest food phenomenon. As a way to eat fresher, tastier produce andpromote the local economy, not only individual consumers, but “more than 200 universities and 400 school districts are supporting a farm-cafeteria movement” (Burros).

Julia Lewis    
12/17/2008
Book Commentary

The Schopenhauer Cure by Irving D. Yalom, chronicles the extraordinary last year of a therapy group.  Descriptions of the therapy sessions form a significant portion of the novel, complete with copious amounts of dialogue between group members.  These interactions are reported to the reader by the therapist, Julius Hertzfeld.  It is fascinating as the reader to witness the thoughts of therapist and consider how his own conscious and unconscious are responding to the patient.