Word: tenuousness
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...Mind Works is stirring up an academic hornet's nest. The ideas that anchor Pinker's book--an artful blend of artificial intelligence and evolutionary psychology--strike many experts as glibly superficial. To Pinker's credit, he has worked hard to make explicit the sometimes tenuous connection between robots, computers and the evolution of the human psyche. Without the models developed by computer scientists, Pinker baldly states at one point, "it would be impossible to make sense of the evolution of the mind...
...their zeal to offer alternative explanations for racial disparities, the Thernstroms often construct tenuous arguments. Studies have repeatedly agreed with blacks' complaints of redlining, but the Thernstroms posit that the key factor is more likely low black income--as if the fault lies with black people who don't know how to read their checkbook balance before they venture forth to buy a house...
...surface of Mars--where the sky is salmon and Earth is a blue morning star--you probably would have noticed the spaceship coming. It may have been the noise the thing made that caught your attention; although the Martian atmosphere is spent and shredded, it's not too tenuous to carry sound. And it's certainly not too tenuous to make anything that tries to punch through it pay the price, causing the interloper to glow like a meteor as it plunged toward a touchdown somewhere on the ancient world. That you couldn't have missed...
...possible. Why not scrap the project after the blueprints for the spacecraft and the mission plan had been written and all the key calculations had been completed? In part, it is because one cannot know with certainty whether something is possible until it has been done. Theory stands upon tenuous soil where there are not facts to back...
...plead guilty to fraud and tax evasion in bilking the Rose Law Firm and his former clients out of almost $500,000, they say they would never have put their own reputations on the line. But in the days after Hubbell resigned in April 1994, his situation had only tenuous connections to the broader Whitewater questions that were beginning to envelop the White House. Still to come, for instance, was the revelation that Hubbell had spirited Hillary's Whitewater-related records from the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, to his basement in Washington. Hubbell also continued to maintain...