Word: notionalism
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...matter of removing the crap in the way?BJ: I do think you have to clear away the crap, but I don’t think that everything you write is already in you. That’s why I don’t really buy into the notion of ‘write what you know.’ I try to disabuse myself and my students of that everyday. I mean so often you know more than you think you do, but I’m more interested as a writer and a teacher in what you don?...
...terrified,” says Senor, who is currently writing a book about the Middle East. “Even our biggest critics inside Iraq don’t want us to leave, and so there’s nothing to me so short-sighted or maddening than the notion that we should pull...
...notion that the only thing one should do is concentrate on academic issues, do the next term paper, is idiotic,” Hoffmann said...
...researchers said that there is little evidence to support the notion that using antibiotics will increase the length of the patient’s life, while there is ample evidence to support the fear that widespread use of antibiotics can breed bacteria that are resistant to drugs therapy...
...ideas we write about are all paradigm shifts, all new ways of thinking about things that we deal with every day. The first piece contains the largest idea of all and perhaps the simplest: economist Jeffrey Sachs' notion that we can find solutions to the century's most pressing global problems--poverty, hunger, disease, the environment--as long as we think of ourselves as a single group or entity and not as a collection of competing nation-states. Sachs' provocative and inspiring essay is adapted from his new book, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet...