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Ideas are critical intellectual conceptions; in this respect key ideas that are analyzed in some detail at this site are indexed below.

Ideas on this site that are treated in sample articles.

The world

Any idea is a purely mental impression, constructed from either the imagination, or sensory perception or a mixture of the two expressing facts and opinions seeking to give either coherence or expression to an array of loosely or tightly related concepts with an identifiable communicative value.

Often used to mean a suggestion, aim or purpose.

A belief with some persuasive power to influence people's opinions or behavior.

A conjecture, at worst a hunch or at best an hypothesis, that can be tested or at least contrasted with events and compared to actual conditions.

The confirmation of a thought or a purposeful intent to allege some degree of importance of things, people, places, or events through a mental construct.

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Critical links for my courses

Vocabulary one of many pages devoted to
words you need to know for success in the class.
Metaphors are crucial to use and interpret in your writing.
Body of knowledge, such as: ecology, history, bio-history, biology, economics, science.
Methods are the means we have to test our assumptions.
A new grammar for our experiences may be necessary to develop?

What is social justice and how is it important to us all?

Carbon as a new currency for our post-industrial world?
ITIS: Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
The United States Bureau of the Census.
USDA, Plants database of the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Washington Post Writer's group.
Environmental News Service.
Technology as politics.
Earth Encyclopedia.

Democracy Now.
Quotations.
Museums.
Grist.

Press.
NGOs.

Ideas | concepts | links | complexity | ecological integrity | Population | Class tips | Exchange

Authors: a partial listing of with links to authorities used, quoted, and sited on this web site

Index of short essays as examples of written discourse

Writing | writing from texts | how to approach writing | writing papers | writing & world views

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Concepts:

Political relationships to power

Triangular power arrangement

Constitutional time line

Death --reflections by Wallace Stevens

Global problems

Ecological Criticism

Ecological justice

Human evolution