Word: positioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would posit that we cannot be credible critics of any academic discipline, and especially not of its historical canon, unless we first recognize, study and criticize the great flow of scholarship that came before us or our modern critics...
Clever lads that they are, they offer us a world in which most of the population consists of dronelike clones created and managed, without their knowing it, by superintelligent humanoid machines (men in black, of course). Even more cleverly, they posit, in Reeves' character, a modern Everyman--a computer hacker, naturally--who may be the Messiah whom the remnants of authentic humanity have long awaited. These resisters, called Zionists, live near the earth's core and are represented up top by the very brainy Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and a small band of rebel fighters, living by their wits and their...
...religious heterosexual I feel suited to criticize Hugh Liebert's position on homosexuality. Introducing religion into political debate is unfriendly. Just as I do not expect those who morally disagree with me to study the Parjnaparamita, it is absurd to posit that Christian moralists can only be opposed with Biblical criticism...
...most common condemnation of homosexuality stems from religious faith. This argument holds that the Bible is the sole moral authority; the Bible says that homosexuality is a sin, so homosexuality is immoral--to posit anything to the contrary would smack of blasphemy...
Society can not posit homosexuality as being either purely genetic or as purely choice, he said...