Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...decades, a group of 23 Ivy League universities and competitive colleges known as the "overlap group" met to discuss admissions and financial aid each spring at Wellesley, but the Justice Department charged that these meetings constituted a conspiracy to shield college tuition from competitive pressures...
...overlap schools can now only discuss information in the public domain, she says, and are "really paranoid," bringing attorneys to meetings...
...agreement does contain exemptions to discuss certain principles. The Ivy League schools, for example, have a uniform policy of no athletic scholarships...