More than Bullshit: Trash Talk and Other Psychological Tests of Sporting Excellence

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 14 (1):47-61 (2018)
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Sporting excellence is a function of physical, cognitive and psychological capacities: its standard requires demonstration of superlative physical and strategic skills and the performance of these...

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On Bullshit.Harry G. Frankfurt - 1986 - Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
On Bullshit.Harry Frankfurt - 1986 - Philosophical Quarterly 56 (223):300-301.
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