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I can think of word starting like "hyp" and ending in "crite" to describe JM
McCain: 'What we did was perfectly legal and appropriate' 2008
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Hippo-crite u r. (yes, I spelled it wrong on purpose)
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Al Gore will stop being an eco-crite before Cameron stands up for the rights of Tobacco companies and sweets manufacturers to sell their legal products via tv ads as and when they choose.
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His work consists primarily in showing that each of several voting methods that have been proposed fail to satisfy the Condorcet crite - rion, in that one could find a system of preference orderings for individuals such that there exists a candi - date who would get a majority against any other but would not be chosen.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas KENNETH J. ARROW 1968
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The clear and adequate conceptions were their own crite - rion and provided their own guarantee of their cer - tainty and truth.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas RICHARD H. POPKIN 1968
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The argument for this crite - rion might be put this way.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas KENNETH J. ARROW 1968
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In the case of the romantic movement an emotional subjectivism was brought to the fore, and it formed the core of the entire trend and constituted the crite - rion for the separation of the true romantic from the fellow traveller, of which there were many.
CRISIS IN HISTORY GERHARD MASUR 1968
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This crite rion of intuitive self-evidence had been employed to justify the indubitable metaphysical truth of Euclid's axioms epitomized in Galileo's view that the book of nature was written in the language of Euclid's geome - try.
PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968
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Moreover, the crite - rion of truth in logic and mathematics is “that which can be clearly and distinctly conceived,” and this is also the criterion of truth that must be appealed to,
METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968
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_Hypo_ -- under, implying concealment or disguise; as, _hypo-crite_, one dissembling his real character.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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