Word: priory
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...then any surprise if the class itself becomes equally bored and disengaged? Every section the same thought process: “If I pipe in with a comment about the Kantian a priori synthetic, I’ll look like a tool, but then again, I need my section credit.” At the risk of playing the part of the German philosopher (every section has at least one, brimming with analogues to the Hegelian dialectic and quotes from Schopenhauer about Weltschmerz and the will), I make my paltry contribution...
...before I go about lamenting how bigoted and benighted the American people are, I must pause to consider whether refusing to vote for a certain category of people is a priori evidence of prejudice. Or rather, since the very definition of the word “prejudice” implies a predisposition for or against something, whether certain prejudices are permissible in the democratic process...
...scientific method can be used to strike back at the talking heads that invade the national airwaves every night (here’s looking at you, ESPN) with their a priori arguments and baseball superstitions...
...beginning of a new semester. It’s quite another to check the “status” of each of your section members based on the original e-mail the TF sends welcoming you call to the class, thus allowing you to decide a priori what kind of “face” to put on for this class...
...from playing an active role in determining their future, rather than simply being shuttled from university to university without any sense of agency. Perhaps this would be cold comfort to the visiting the students who are not accepted, but the opportunity to transfer is better than getting rejected a priori and summarily cast...