Word: conceptive
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...white man, [the lack of diversity in the faculty] reinforces a false belief of superiority and keeps us at a place where the only scholarship works off a concept of white supremacy," said Ian W. Maher, a first-year divinity student. "[If nothing changes] I become a minister who was schooled in the idea white is right and I perpetuate the cycle of segregation in American churches...
These principles suggest that the concept of a Core--a graduation requirement which can be fulfilled only by selections from a separate list of classes--should be abandoned. Nearly any departmental course in the disciplines covered by the Core would give students the necessary familiarity with an "approach to knowledge." To include every appropriate course, the Core would have to expand until it was indistinguishable from a distribution requirement. And an expanded Core would still be subject to the often capricious decisions of the Standing Committee on the Core Program...
...majority of the public pooh-poohing the idea of cells or atoms, and with good reason. These ideas do not mess with the way we perceive ourselves. The presence or absence of atoms does not throw a monkey wrench into our 16th-century self-concept. Scientific investigation, when not self-applied, is lauded and useful, but when it threatens to rock our pedestal, well, it is all just "theories" anyway. We accept the fruits of science and rational, empirical exploration of the physical world without embracing these precepts in our bones, without having the stomach to accept what they tell...
...this particular circumstance. We have harnessed the atom and mapped the genome, but public figures do not talk of our shared ancestry, or the hard and lucky road that we have drunkenly walked down to become sentient. We cannot refer to the rich history of our species, because the concept of that history is not by any means shared. How can we have a vision of the future of humanity without a coherent, rational concept of its past? But the real danger in this half-commitment, this milking of science without purchase, is the strange worldview that it allows. Instead...
...deeply influenced by conservative Confucian values, the anonymity and freedom of cyberspace has provided an escape from old-style mores that the young in particular find oppressive. The Web has made casual encounters between the sexes much easier in a society where Western-style dating is a relatively new concept. Online dating is hugely popular among high school and university students...