Word: notionalism
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...comes to the conclusion that the harm done by involuntary circumcision must be weighed against its “contributions to the meanings of particular African…identities.” Appiah spends pages analyzing the alternatives and justifying his own notion of cosmopolitanism through the lens of the liberal philosophical tradition. He makes philosophical sense out of common sense, bending and plying theories of great thinkers of the past and present to assemble a comprehensive assessment of the meaning of identity...
...Yesterday, the jury found Pittman guilty of murder and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. While the defense tried to argue that the drugs caused him to become “intoxicated” and act in a way he otherwise never would have, the jury rejected this notion and sided with the prosecution’s argument that the Zoloft defense was a smokescreen and that the boy’s intense anger promulgated his actions. The Pittman case would have immediately been thrown out a few years ago, but recent developments have catapulted this case and others...
...imply that the spread of HIV is due to sexual orientation, not sexual behavior. Michael A. Feldstein ’07, the public relations director of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporter Alliance (BGLTSA), said, “The problem with these rules is that they perpetuate the notion that AIDS is a gay disease and that all of the blood of MSM is tainted.” Granted, it is not the role of the FDA to legitimize or de-legitimize any number of lifestyles (from injecting intravenous drugs to having sex with men to traveling to Africa...
...notion that the storied Harvard-Yale rivalry had fizzled on the hardwood was dispelled last season. Harvard entered its initial contest against Yale with a 2-18 overall record, but played its most inspired game of the year to shock the Bulldogs, 78-71. The loss was the deadly fourth for Yale, eliminated them from contention in a humiliating manner—only twice has an Ivy team ever won a title with four league defeats on its ledger...
...here that Begley stepped up to eliminate any notion that first-place Penn’s Ivy League supremacy would be challenged. On the same night that preseason favorite Princeton was stunned by Dartmouth, the Quakers’ captain refused to let a similar scenario play out in Cambridge. Begley hit two quick jumpers to ignite the sizeable Penn crowd, and added an acrobatic reverse layup shortly thereafter to quickly give a cushion back to Penn...