Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Quine is a renowned authority on logic and semantics, author of "A System of Logic," "Mathematical Logic," and "Elementary Logic," and a former Travelling Fellow, Junior Fellow, and Rockefeller Fellow. He has been a member of the Philosophy Department since...
When stolid Bob Taft, armored with the breastplate of facts and the lance of logic, sallied forth after the G.O.P. presidential nomination last summer, he had cast hardly a backward glance at Ohio. He was certain that his home state was a strong keep which could not be breached, that its 53 convention delegates were loyal to their liege lord. But last week Bob Taft found himself with his back to his own portcullis, fighting for his political life. Minnesota's Harold Stassen had somehow managed to get across the moat and was threatening to kidnap the faithful henchmen...
...born in Jefferson, Iowa (pop. 4,000) in November 1901. His father was looked on as something of an eccentric by the neighbors. He built an eight-sided house for his family, on the theory that it would be proof against wind storms, scribbled a new system of logic which Gallup still hopes to edit some day. He was an ardent Bryan man. As a joke, people started calling George "Ted," after Teddy Roosevelt, a nickname that has stuck ever since...
...logic of giving course credit for the thesis is clear: original work in one's field should be a distinctive part of the honor candidate's scholastic career, and such work would be seriously impeded when the thesis writer must also carry a regular course load at the same time he should be busy with research. This is clearly recognized in fields which have tutorial, where the honors candidate may obtain course credit for taking tutorial. In fields where there is no tutorial, the work of producing a thesis is even more difficult, because of the lack of guidance...
Professor Bridgman, the author of "The Logic of Modern Physics," was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his research in high pressure phenomena. Professor Stouffer has done extensive work in the methods of quantitative sociology for the government and the Army...