Word: contemn
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...answer has emerged from a careful study of some of the stationery in my office. The community-defining text for today is the single word, Veritas: Truth.What is the opposite of Truth? In the first place, Truth opposes Error. A university with the motto Veritas should counter wrongness and contemn it if it turns out to be willful. Why should a judge, rather than a university, be the first to state authoritatively that “The doctrine of ‘intelligent design’ [is] a religious strategy” rather than a scientific one? We have unanimity...