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essay: we are all confident idiots Dunning ends his essay by reflecting that one’s cognitive framework and life experiences provide one with knowledge, but not with “insight into the dimensions of our ignorance.” Why does he choose to use the metaphor of...

essay:politics and the English language Orwell uses the image of a cuttlefish to describe users of inflated language: “When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, l...

essay: politics and the english language In paragraph 13 of “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell tells the reader that, when observing the typical politician speak, “one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but so...