Word: intuitionism
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That kind of enthusiasm helps account for an upsurge in such facilities. There are currently some 300 U.S. museums devoted to children -- twice as many as a decade ago -- and visitors are flocking to them in record numbers. One spur to growth has been concerned parents, who are clamoring for...
But would he? Remember, Rawls wants us to choose our political institutions without knowing in advance what place we'll end up holding in the world we design, so it's not enough to say that citizens of the wealthier society are better off "on average." Each of us has...
The metaphysics of the possibilities can flare and darken. The Holocaust and other catastrophes of the 20th century invite the term post-apocalyptic. But a world veering toward the 21st century sometimes has an edgy intuition that it is "pre-apocalyptic." Last summer Francis Fukuyama, a State Department planner, resolved...
That the situation in Panama was confused and information inadequate is nothing new for such incidents. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a crisis manager of considerable success, claims that in almost every crunch there is never enough information and always uncertainty, and the final decision must frequently ride more...
Did Bush know? Was he too preoccupied with his busy White House schedule, not attentive enough to this festering problem? Was it a time when intuition should have prodded him to act?