Word: notionally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although former students like Kuntz reject the notion of a link between race and grade inflation, there is universal acknowledgement that grades rose on campuses nationwide during...
...notion that animals might actually think poses a problem, it is an ethical one. The great philosophers, such as Descartes, used their belief that animals cannot think as a justification for arguing that they do not have moral rights. It is one thing to treat animals as mere resources if they are presumed to be little more than living robots, but it is entirely different if they are recognized as fellow sentient beings. Working out the moral implications makes a perfect puzzle for a large-brained, highly social species like...
...writer Eugene Linden, who has explored the field of animal intelligence for 20 years. He has authored several books on the subject, including Apes, Men, and Language, and Silent Partners: The Legacy of the Ape Language Experiments. "What strikes me is that so many humans seem offended by the notion of animal intelligence," says Linden, "as though it would devalue language and thought if we shared those abilities with other creatures." But just try to get a chimpanzee to take as good a picture of James Balog as the one he took of Sally...
...aspects. For one thing, the rules apply only to broadcasting stations -- not to cable channels, which can continue to lure young viewers with all the cartoons they want. The creation of a new category of educational fare, moreover, may simply ghettoize such programming and turn kids off. The very notion of educational TV often seems to reflect narrow, schoolmarmish notions. Live-action shows are almost automatically preferred over cartoons, and some sweetly innocent shows, like Barney and Friends, seem to win approval largely because they shelter kids from the rude real world -- a strange notion of education indeed...
...Purdue: "There are undoubtedly still scientists out there who question the intelligence of dogs and cats because they don't have the hard data. They feel it's unscientific to acknowledge phenomena we can't prove." But the majority of Beck's colleagues, he says, now accept the notion that animals have, for lack of a better phrase, an emotional and intellectual life. "I am absolutely convinced, for example, that my dog feels guilty when he defecates on the rug," says Beck. "A blind observer could see it. He behaves the same way I would have if my mother...