Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your first section you also learn the rudiments of cynic-speak. Thinkers don't have ideas--they have "notions." Notions are safe and don't aspire to significance. "Freud's notion that people have primal notions is an interesting notion...
Korea has been called a "little dragon" and the "next Japan," a country poised on the brink of economic superpower status. But this notion has blinded some observers to the fact that at many levels, Korea remains a backward country. For starters, the military controlled the presidency for 32 often brutal years from...
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Amidst all this sound and fury, what they fail to recognize is that blaming television shows for anti-social behavior undermines any notion of moral responsibility. If we accept that television or the movies can overwhelm free will, how can we hold anyone responsible for anything? More importantly, how can we cling to the sanctity of free expression, if free expression can effectively enslave those exposed...
Perhaps the staff needs to be disabused of the notion that basic standards of morality can be lifted or imposed--even by the Crimson staff--through mere liberal fiat...