Word: priori
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college to the effect that a costly iron fence is to be built quite around the yard. The story, we are aware, is not authoritatively told, and yet, even at the risk of being mistaken, we think it best to give the matter some attention. On a priori grounds doubtless a fence such as described would not be half a bad idea. Expecially if it served the purpose of excluding the trouble some trespasser and the abominable "mucker" we would be forced to admit it a common blessing. There seem to us, however, to be other considerations in the matter...
...concise statement of the English method is made and the criticisms on it given. The new schoolmen find its faults to be in the fact that it is too reductive and too absolute. They hold that results derived from historical research are more reliable than those from a priori principle. They wish to join the question of economics with ethics and sociology, and not consider it as regarding personal interests alone. The author points out that the real difference in the two schools is only a difference of words, and that in truth their aims are the same. The many...
...would take place this evening, but,as was the case last year, the faculty decided that, in order to prevent the consequences of a rush, the meeting should occur in the afternoon. This is probably a sore disappointment to many of the sophomores, who think they have an a priori right to enjoy a little fun with the freshmen on the night of the first classmeeting. With regard to the action of the faculty, it must be said that the tendency for "rushing" such as it exists at other colleges is gaining ground here, and that there are better ways...
...exchange. Men say, indeed, that self-interest is king in this domain of business and the Christian law does not apply to the factory and the counting-room. Business is business. This common sentiment of the street takes its rise from Adam Smith and his school, whose false a priori assumption that self-interest is supreme over benevolence dominated economic theories for 100 years and whose bitter fruits we are still reaping, since such doctrine finds congenial soil in the natural heart. Smith and his contemporaries were optimists, but his modern disciples are materialists, and would apply the cold, inexorable...
...communication which we publish to-day, on the Boylston prize speaking, has on a priori grounds a certain amount of truth and value in it, but we must believe that what our correspondent feels as a great injustice in the preliminary speaking, is greatly exaggerated by him. There is very little chance that any man who is really worthy to compete for the prizes will be debarred because he has not had private instruction from one of the judges. Surely...