question: CHAPTER XIII 

BUB SUCCUMBS TO FORCE 

One day Peter Conant abruptly left his office, came home and packed his grip and then hurried down town and caught the five o'clock train for New York. He was glum and uncommunicative, as usual, merely telling Aunt Hannah that business called him away and he did not know when he would be back. 

A week later Peter appeared at the family breakfast table, having arrived on the early morning express, and he seemed in a more gracious mood than usual. Indeed, he was really talkative. 

"I met Will Morrison in New York, Hannah," he said to his wife. "He was just sailing for London with his family and will remain abroad all summer. He wanted us to occupy his mountain place, Hillcrest Lodge, during July and August, and although I told him we couldn't use the place he insisted on my taking an order on his man to turn the shack over to us." 

"The shack!" cried Aunt Hannah indignantly. 

"Why, Peter, Hillcrest Lodge is a little palace. It is the cosiest, most delightful place I have ever visited. Why shouldn't we accept Will Morrison's proposition to occupy it?" 

"I can't leave my business." 

"You could run up every Friday afternoon, taking the train to Millbank and the stage to Hillcrest, and stay with us till Monday morning." 

He stared at her reflectively. 

"Would you be safe in that out-of-the-way place?" he asked. 

"Of course. Didn't you say Will had a man for caretaker? And only a few scattered cottages are located near by, so we shall be quite by ourselves and wholly unmolested. I mean to go, and take the girls. The change will do us all good, so you may as well begin to make arrangements for the trip." 
1. Who is Peter's wife?
2. Is she often indignant?
3. Who did Peter meet with when he was away?
4. Where?
5. How'd he get there?
6. Was it the noon train?
7. Where was Will off to?
8. How was he getting there?
9. What's the name of his manor?
10. How many months was he going to be gone?
11. Is Hillcrest Lodge somewhat palatial?
12. What can't Peter leave?
13. What town could he take the train to on Friday afternoons?
14. Then how would he get to Hillcrest?
15. How long would he then stay?
16. Is Peter in a more talkative mood than normal?
17. What else is his current mood?
18. What meal are they having as they discuss this?
19. Is he concerned if Hannah will be safe at Hillcrest?
20. Why?
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answer: 1. Hannah
2. unknown
3. Will Morrison
4. New York
5. the early morning express
6. no
7. london
8. boat
9. Hillcrest Lodge
10. two,
11. yes
12. his business
13. Millbank
14. take the stage
15. till Monday
16. yes
17. gracious
18. breakfast
19. yes
20. it's an out-of-the-way place


question: In epistemology, rationalism is the view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification". More formally, rationalism is defined as a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive". 

In an old controversy, rationalism was opposed to empiricism, where the rationalists believed that reality has an intrinsically logical structure. Because of this, the rationalists argued that certain truths exist and that the intellect can directly grasp these truths. That is to say, rationalists asserted that certain rational principles exist in logic, mathematics, ethics, and metaphysics that are so fundamentally true that denying them causes one to fall into contradiction. The rationalists had such a high confidence in reason that empirical proof and physical evidence were regarded as unnecessary to ascertain certain truths – in other words, "there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience". 

Different degrees of emphasis on this method or theory lead to a range of rationalist standpoints, from the moderate position "that reason has precedence over other ways of acquiring knowledge" to the more extreme position that reason is "the unique path to knowledge". Given a pre-modern understanding of reason, rationalism is identical to philosophy, the Socratic life of inquiry, or the zetetic (skeptical) clear interpretation of authority (open to the underlying or essential cause of things as they appear to our sense of certainty). In recent decades, Leo Strauss sought to revive "Classical Political Rationalism" as a discipline that understands the task of reasoning, not as foundational, but as maieutic.
1. What did Leo Strauss want to revive?
2. How is rationalism seen in epistemology?
3. how is it formally defined?
4. Has rationalism ever been controversial?
5. What was it opposed to?
6. Is it illogical or logical?
7. What is the argument  for rationalism?
8. Was math apart of the argument?
9. Did ethics come into play?
10. What was the last thing involved?
11. Were they confident in this or not sure?
12. What type of proof did the have?
13. What type of evidence did they not need?
14. What were there words on that?
15. Were there one or many standpoint to this?
16. What was the moderate one?
17. What was more extreme?
18. What is rationalism the same as?
19. What does zetetic mean?
20. Is it considered a discipline?
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answer:
1. Classical Political Rationalism
2. regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge
3. a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive"
4. YES
5. empiricism
6. logical
7. that certain truths exist and that the intellect can directly grasp these truths
8. yes
9. yes
10. metaphysics
11. confident
12. empirical proof
13. physical
14. there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience
15. many
16. that reason has precedence over other ways of acquiring knowledge
17. the unique path to knowledge
18. philosophy
19. skeptical
20. yes