Word: priori
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus it is time to take a stand against those radicals who would allow students to type their examinations. Such agitation might eventually force the Administration to take some action after to these many years of investigation. Ignoring the merits of the agitators' demands, it is a priori and obviously true that agitation per se is an evil, which is certainly not good. And so the Administration should not exert itself and should block these self-styled progressives who want to type examinations...
...school of thought, but America herself. "An avowed aloof ness from national feeling," Lionel Trilling says, "is no longer the first ceremonial step into the life of thought . . . For the first time in the history of the modern American intellectual, America is not to be conceived of as a priori the vulgarest and stupidest nation of the world...
...setting a ceiling on expenditures without even investigating the needs which the Bureau of the Budget had carefully calculated. After having to pass supplementary bills amounting to six billion dollars over the ceiling, Congress dropped the Committee. Lipscomb's proposed committee, however, would not aim at writing an a priori budget. It would simply determine the best fiscal policy by correlating the reports of the various committees on revenue, appropriations, and the economy. Once having established a policy, it would advise the other committees about the propriety of specific appropriations in a planned economy...
Since this is not a matter of a legal tradition (as in property law) nor of a constitutional arrangement which might be other than it is (as in the provisions for legislation) but of an a priori principle intrinsic to any free society, the clue to what the Amendment means will have to come from an understanding of what it must mean as a constitutional principle of a free society. Thus, following Dean Griswold, we must inquire concerning its moral basis, i.e., its place in the realization of freedom and its connection with the moral respect which is the foundation...
...gravitation (i.e., relativity) is the place to start when trying to explain the universe, but he admits that he does not yet have the whole answer. No one has found an experimental method of proving his unified theory. "Nevertheless," he says hopefully, "I consider it unjustified to assert, a priori, that such a theory is unable to cope with the atomistic character of energy...