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...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject--we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key-device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it wasn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...changing so fast, that scholars are still struggling to answer that question, or even make sense of it. Most traditional religious thinkers are skeptical. "I don't think the computer revolution has any cosmic implications for religion at all," says Notre Dame's Plantinga. "We already know...
...cosmic real estate goes, few places are less desirable than the moon. Last week, however, the bleak world started to look more hospitable when scientists announced that it is home to a decidedly terrestrial feature: a mammoth field...
Bryan Lee, a freshman out of Houston, brings his 4.4-speed to his column, which draws its name from a cosmic interaction between his fas unsername (blee) and the Houston Rockets' slogan during their championship years. He wrote his application essay about Jerry Rice and will name his fistborn son after the wide reciever. He bleeds burnt orange...