Word: priories
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pidot criticized those who reject the work a priori, and indirectly attacked Clarke as hypocritical...
...staff's a priori rejection of any serious scholarship that challenges their long-held beliefs is very disturbing. An attitude like the staff's would have led to the rejection of the research of Galileo--and the research of countless others like him who challenged conventional wisdom with comprehensive analysis and sound logic...
Respected scholars such as Glenn Loury, Andrew Hacker and others have written short, but thoughtful responses to the book which dispute its basic claims and criticize some of its methods of argumentation. They do not dismiss the book a priori based on its rather unsettling contentions, but engage its substance...
...piece continues in the same astounding vein. Operating on the a priori assumption that fatness is bad, Cucci recommends a battery of mandatory physical education programs and nutrition seminars...
...took David Hume's assault on the a priori view of causality to a waken Immanuel Kant from his "dogmatic slumber" on the issue of the a priori nature of all metaphysics. Similarly, though perhaps less monumentally, it took the recent controversy between Professor Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. and Zaheer R. Ali '94, president of the Black Students Association, on the origin of grade inflation to awaken me from my own dogmatic slumber on the issue of affirmative action...