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...Spitzer has chosen to espouse . . . Dialectical materialism! A better name would be dialectical murder . . . Any scientist who has such poor power of discrimination as to choose to support Lysenko's . . . genetics against all the weight of evidence against it is not much of a scientist, or, a priori, has lost the freedom that an instructor or investigator should possess...
...just as Coleridge corrected Wordsworth's mistaken nations about diction: besides the 'heavy accent and the slowness' he prefers, he has elsewhere explained that it is easier to write poetry than prose which must be created since certain formulae, such as rhythm, rhyme, etc., are not made available, a priori, to the prose stylist...
...deliberations and fact-finding will be conducted "dispassionately" prejudiced by no "a priori assumptions," it was emphasized...
Committeemen emphasized that they were out to conduct a fair investigation of the Department and were making no "a priori assumptions." Clyde C. Snyder, Jr., a Business School supporter of the probe, commented, "We hope neither the students nor the University will consider this a purge...
...issue is hardly sacrosanct. Preliminary forays by the Law School Record have exposed data on costs elsewhere which merit serious attention. While there is surely no reason to reach an a priori assumption that "more for the money" is a practical possibility, there is even less justification for an official attitude nonchalantly glossing over the entire matter. Such a guarded status quo too easily becomes accepted as inviolate by a student population caught bodily in the rapid maelstrom of life in Cambridge...