Word: notionalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Pinker’s talk focused on the material in his new book The Blank Slate. Currently at number 10 on the New York Times Best-seller list, the book explores the notion of human nature and its moral and political implications...
...discipline to dispel pervasive myths about human nature. The book’s title comes from Locke’s famous belief that a baby’s mind is a “blank page” bereft of knowledge about the world. For Pinker, this utterly false notion has produced a suite of modern ills, from modish parenting methods to the architecture of the Carpenter Center...
...community. “I definitely have my own beef with this fraternity and I’ve ranted about it in various contexts,” Skier s says. “I don’t know what their policy on transgendered members is, but my notion is that they would probably not include a transgendered female member in their club as a male...
...notion that you can’t get anthrax spores or nuclear missiles through any other path than Canada is just wrong,” Bunn said...
...state income tax. "This turned from an election spotlighted on education to one focused on pocketbook issues," says Susan MacManus, a leading Florida political analyst at the University of South Florida in Tampa. While the chief voter concern was schools, she notes, Floridians were willing to entertain the notion of change. "But when they suddenly start thinking about all the economic uncertainty we're living under now, then change of leadership is a lot less appealing." Florida GOP Chairman Al Cardenas concurred: "People in Florida realized at the end of the day that Jeb Bush has their utter confidence...