Appraising the script for the director's current project, an intellectual declares, "What monstrous presumption to think that others could benefit from the squalid catalogue of your mistakes".
After experiencing prejudice at work, Coleman Silk's father tells the family: "Any time a white deals with you, no matter how well intentioned he may be, there is the presumption of intellectual inferiority.
By supposing the truth of the rival thesis and (in Socratic style) showing how it leads to unacceptable consequences or breaks another intellectual norm, one repossesses a presumption of truth, provided the classical epistemologists never tire of emphasizing provided one's own thesis does indeed have at least the appearance of a knowledge source in its corner.
He is known as "an intellectual," which, in Italy, carries the presumption of being an honest man.
Mr. Wang, editor of the journal Dushu (Reading) and a research professor at Qinghua University in Beijing, is one of the few Chinese intellectuals to have openly challenged the presumption that economic reform is sufficient without political reform.
However, the very meaning of the word 'holistic' defies this presumption by encompassing the whole child including the intellectual, artistic, physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and civic development of students.
In equating "intellectual" with a wholesale acceptance of the modernist world view and its near-absolute presumption of the impossibility of miracles, intellectuals have presented Christians with a false dilemma -- either reject one's traditional faith or be anti-intellectual.
The presumption behind the codes, to be drawn up by each broadcaster, will be that intellectual property rights stay with the producer, who will be able to negotiate from a position of genuine choice as to what sort of deal they would like to strike and what rights they would like to sell.
On these socially constructive historical groundings rest several key heuristic presumptions that are central to Africana philosophy as a metaphilosophical organizing concept of intellectual praxes.
SIR TOM STOPPARD admits to a feeling of "enormous presumption" at the transfer to Moscow of "The Coast of Utopia", his trilogy about 19th-century Russian intellectuals.
