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- noun The condition of being a
savant .
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Examples
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Your suspicion is groundless, because you have no reason to think that the Designer exhibits a general intelligence instead of a perfectly narrow, unlearning savantism.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Your suspicion is groundless, because you have no reason to think that the Designer exhibits a general intelligence instead of a perfectly narrow, unlearning savantism.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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I only see one article where autism and Charge syndrome might overlap, but I do not see any savantism in Charge syndrome.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Templars and other Monastic Military Orders: 2007
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Includes savantism, temporal lobe epilepsy and synesthesia.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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I meant I do not believe I have the Charge syndrome as subset of autism, but I do have savantism.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Templars and other Monastic Military Orders: 2007
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To me, the crown of savantism is to be, that it surely opens the way for a more splendid theology, and for ampler and diviner songs.
Preface, 1876, To the Two-Volume Centennial Edition of L. of G. and Two Rivulets. Collect 1892
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To me, the crown of savantism is to be, that it surely opens the way for a more splendid theology, and for ampler and diviner songs.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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To me, the crown of savantism is to be, that it surely opens the way for a more splendid theology, and for ampler and diviner songs.
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Simon: TerenceC Says: Simon I never said anything abo ... michael reynolds: Kevin: It's a case of savantism.
Donklephant 2009
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The notion of the savant has long been fascinating cognitive scientists and the general public, but a connection between autism and savantism was not established until now.
Medindia Health News 2009
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