What assumptions are we, and the old people themselves, making about their capacity to learn?

"And I'm confident about my capacity to get on with the campaign."

There is something unique about man's capacity to kill, and even to eat, his own species.

What the hell does she know about my capacity for love?

He had doubts about her capacity for what might be called civilized behavior.

And what does it say about our own capacity for greed?

Squares might be right about people's capacity to do violence.

Today there is little concern expressed about the nation's capacity to produce scientists.

It's about his capacity as chairman of the national energy policy development group.

But there was never any doubt about her intellectual capacity.