Word: priori
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whether that candidate can be trusted to carry out his or her plans. They then vote for the candidate whose goals best converge with their own. If the use of the Clintonic mood becomes widespread, this will no longer be possible--carrying out some campaign promises will a priori entail breaking others...
...question that we instinctively shrink from. And our incapacity to account for the power that undeniable resides in this music leaves room for cynicism and the logic of the market. Mozart the man is today an inscrutable phenomenon and, as such, we have no reason to assume a priori that his music is good, that his long-dismissed serious operas deserve another look...
Picasso's pre-cubist phase where he concentrated on destroying a priori space is evident here, as it was in the Matisses. A Priori space is the conventional three-dimensional, perspectively accurate depiction of depth that originated with Giotto and Pierro Della Francesca in the Renaissance...
Just as it would be unfair of me to assume that all members of an all-white or predominantly white organization are necessarily racist, so it is unfair of others to assume a priori that all people of an historically oppressed group are still necessarily being oppressed or consider themselves...
Passing: Y--Kehler 8-9-1-113, Verduzco 0-1-0-0; H--Priori...