Chances are that Hammurabi would have expected differential treatment as well; he is said to have been a straight thinker.
In the Euthyphro, Socrates encounters Euthyphro (whose name can be translated as "Straight thinker"), reputed for his religious knowledge and on his way to bring charges against his father for murder.
Socrates is on his way to answer the indictment against him; Euthyphro is apparently a well-known crank on religious matters; his name ironically means "straight-thinker".
What I think happened: We put up a particularly smart post, it caught on fire in the blogosphere and on Twitter, and it held the attention of other smart thinkers enough that they clicked straight through to buy her book.
Ms. Stiles described her parents as "straight-edged hippies," independent thinkers who designed their solar-power house long before it was fashionable and who seldom, if ever, touched the peach schnapps, the lone bottle of liquor in the cabinet.
We're going to need this kind of straight talk from respected conservative thinkers and writers, to shame Republican congressman into principled resistance if or when Trump turns into Caesar.
Likewise, on Kant's account, the a priori character of Euclidean geometry derives from the pure form of our intuition of space, which enables the thinker, correctly one may presume, to intuit straight lines in space as continuous.
The idea was simple: take the brightest, most creative thinkers alive, plunk them down for a conversation straight to camera -- reality-show style -- elide the moderator and provide an intimate window into the "big ideas" of our time.
In her book, she comes across as a straight shooter if not a deep thinker.
He turns a whole class of pimple-faced, doctors, lawyers, and businessmen-to-be so high on hormones they can barely see straight into the unspeakable -- poets and free thinkers.
