Word: assents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James could assent to the rigors of logical and mathematical truth systems and still employ pragmatic criteria in utilizing such systems. Indeed, mathematicians can easily ignore two questions with which the Jamesian theory of truth is particularly well-suited for dealing: 1) Why learn mathematics? 2) What mathematical model is best for describing a given empirical situation...
...sleep. Then the anesthesiologist rigs the patient with a mask-or, especially for chest operations, a tube inserted through the mouth and down the windpipe. Even that is not all in many cases: an intravenous drug resembling curare (arrow poison) relaxes his muscles. Only when the anesthesiologist nods assent can the surgeon make the first cut. Any time one of his monitoring gadgets flashes a danger signal, the anesthesiologist may tell the surgeon to stop his cutting...
...Teamsters-had shut down the morning Plain Dealer and the afternoon Press & News after coming to a stalemate in negotiations on job security and wage increases. At week's end, a local citizens' committee talked the drivers into returning to work and was waiting for assent from the Guild. All told, the strike cost Cleveland's papers nearly half a million dollars in lost Christmas-shopping advertising...
Nixon's performance at his last press conference was in addition something of an apology; for by blaming everybody, he could only be blaming himself. But his sin was of presumption, not slander. Hiss's apparently generous statement on television Sunday night was really a sad assent to this judgment. He and Nixon's other victims fell to a desperate incompetent; for Nixon never understood politics until it had found...
...political organizations to get the permission of the Masters to distribute literature in the Houses. The permission of the Dean should remain a requirement; this is elementary courtesy, and the University must have some control over what goes on within it. But the red tape involved in securing the assent of each and every Master is an unnecessary impediment to what should be a perfectly free exchange of political ideas...