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Unfortunately, today's attitude of political correctiveness has effectively tied the hands of that form of law enforcement.
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Unfortunately, today's attitude of political correctiveness has effectively tied the hands of that form of law enforcement.
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After all, humanism is perhaps the only "ism" free of dogma because of the very self-correctiveness of science from which it is partly based, and so we ought to use just such a unique tool to its fullest.
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Long term, we all know the markets will do very well because of the correctiveness of it.
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Long term, we all know the markets will do very well because of the correctiveness of it.
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But the self correctiveness of science is such that we can step out of the culture box, if just long enough to put our favorite theories to the test.
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What no one is free to do, however, is to make such stipulations, erect on those stipulations various prohibitions concerning what science can and cannot consider, then claim that what science produces under those prohibitions is truth, rational belief, accurate mirrors of reality, self-correctiveness, or anything of the sort.
Intelligent Design and String Theory - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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And many in the Muslim world have seen the war on terrorism, and this has been part of their frustration, as a war on Islam and a direct correctiveness (ph).
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What no one is free to do, however, is to make such stipulations, erect on those stipulations various prohibitions concerning what science can and cannot consider, then claim that what science produces under those prohibitions is truth, rational belief, accurate mirrors of reality, self-correctiveness, or anything of the sort.
Intelligent Design and String Theory - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Later we were told, in the age of correctiveness, that he didn't really care about freeing slaves, it was just a political tactic to help win the war.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001
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