Professors, whether they be economists like Harvard's Martin Feldstein, or lawyers like Yale's George Priest, are forever dispensing ideas, so it's unlikely they have saved anything new just for today.
As a native New Yorker, I have to dispense with my ideas about what a bagel is.
Let's dispense with the idea that Auckland is some kind of shrinking violet.
"A new generation is always more comfortable dispensing with old ideas than are its predecessors," Lawrence M. Krauss writes.
Traditionally, one worry with thinkers who dispense with the idea that there are facts outside our particular vantage point is that they risk licensing a bleak worldview.
Let us dispense with the idea that the British military is in a meaningful sense a slightly quaint but essentially harmonious family.
A new generation is always more comfortable dispensing with old ideas than are its predecessors; in this sense, we are never more than a generation away from altering long-held beliefs.
Theodore goes for courgettes as well as aubergines, but I can't see that they add anything, and they need to be cooked separately, so I dispense with that idea sharpish.
Some courts have even decided to dispense with the idea of fair market value when a going concern is valued for distribution in divorce.
Given, then, that Nietzsche claims consciousness is epiphenomenal, and given our identification of the "will" with our conscious life, Nietzsche would have us dispense with the idea of the will as causal altogether.
