Word: priori
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effect of a more diverse community of scholars upon the academic life of the institution would be important, in that it would be yet another enriching ingredient for the enterprises of administration, teaching, learning and research. How is it possible for truly liberally educated individuals to decide a priori that a great body of knowledge is useless, or that whole groups of people (with some rare exceptions) are incapable of achieving--if, indeed, the search for truth is the issue in every field? And how is it possible to build an anti-racist educational environment where educational leadership is weakened...
...form, shaped, that is, through the predeliction of intrinsic motivation, internal, not external to that which can be termed 'the whole'--is, in my opinion--keeping in mind that `my', syntactically defined, is a product of the environment as all thought must of course first be intimated in a priori ontological social funtions--a darn good painting...
...reflect a moral or ethical perspective more relevant than that of an older world view. For me, the image of the Creator which I believe is present in each person I deal with takes precedence over the legal strictures. I cannot bring myself to believe that God abhors, a priori, some 10 percent of the human race--or that it is a religious duty...
...society operates, they do not know their particular situation within it. In the society of Harvard undergraduate housing, the freshman class best approximates this state. If they were to assemble together to formulate a system of assigning Houses, any unanimous agreement resulting from their deliberations would be a priori fair. The poll responses of the freshmen can give us an idea of what they might have come up with if this hypothetical convention took place...
...justify a double standard give sophistry a bad name. Why not admit the obvious? That different churches with different conceptions of morality and different social priorities will try to shape the larger society in different ways, and that one should be wary of offering any argument that dismisses a priori one set of concerns as illegitimate and another...