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Aristotelian logic, Reiser says, has dominated Western thought for 2,000 years, confuses science and society by its omnipresent lingering. This logic is two-valued: a thing is either true or not true. Non-Aristotelian logic (which Bertrand Russell rejects) is many-valued, fills the chasm between true and not true with probabilities. A four-valued logic would permit: true, probably true, possibly true, not true. (The word "and" then acquires 14.348,907 distinct meanings.*) Such logic is not speculative nonsense but a tool urgently needed, for example, by atom-studying physicists. It is also vital in comprehending the relativity...
...recommending the compulsory athletic fee the Council laid plank number two in the bridge that will lead Harvard over the deep and horrid chasm in whose gloomy depths so many other colleges lie groaning. President Conant's demand for an endowment fund started the bridge from one side and the Council has laid the foundations from the other--only by a strong intra-mural program, self-sufficing and self-supporting, can athletics be rigorously bent to meet the needs of every student and the chasm successfully avoided...
...economic queen grandly surveyed the chasm for a moment, looked at the sign that hung over it; then barked an order down the yawning abyss. We watched, fascinated. In a minute a lily-white parcel, wrapped in tissue and tied with a red ribbon, sailed out into the air. She circled under it, like a fairy quarterback, nabbed it, and, darting into her car, vanished in the rtaffic...
Just how far this mild argument would persuade those on the other side of the liberal chasm, was shown when Senator Norris snapped: "I have told the President that TVA should have no part in any pool with private utilities. . . . No good can come from pooling interests with enemies of the TVA program." To settle the issue, President Roosevelt appointed a committee headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes to investigate, suggest a broad national policy on power...
...like any ordinary ship and steering equipment in the stern, so that it can be towed by one of the auxiliary train at a rate of ten knots. Also in its stern there will be a pair of huge dam gates that will reveal, when opened, a great rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will be pushed at sea. When an ailing battleship is brought into position before the ARD-3, the dock's great bottom tanks will be pumped full of water to sink its keel...