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It is a cardinal principle of reason and rationality that conceptions should stand or fall on their own merits, regardless of the moral rectitudes or deficiencies of their sources.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies 2009
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It is a cardinal principle of reason and rationality that conceptions should stand or fall on their own merits, regardless of the moral rectitudes or deficiencies of their sources.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies 2009
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America as one might view it through its art, through its churches, chairs and cars, its newness and its rectitudes, its follies and injustices and its art world hype.
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He made them conform a good deal to Victorian rectitudes.
Introduction 1922
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In each of us there are traits that the chances of life have never revealed; and though she would have sat by the bedside, even if Alice were stricken with typhoid fever, Mrs. Barton recoiled spitefully like a cat before the stern rectitudes of a nature so dissimilar from her own.
Muslin 1892
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