Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This manifestation of censorial logic was interesting. It was easy to see how the information in question could embarrass the Administration politically in dealing with its isolationist opponents. How it could bring any military danger to the safety or lives of Americans to have other nations know that the U.S. is making at least two divisions ready to fight, the Secretary did not explain. He just asserted...
Equally interesting was this second manifestation of Knox logic. If the Government has declared war, it may have military reasons for suppressing the news of a particular action. But in a democracy the people are presumably entitled to know when the shooting starts, particularly if the Government has not told them, and the function of a free, critical and informative press is to safeguard democracy by seeing that the people hear what they are entitled to know...
...Appeals-at University of Buffalo): "Unhappy and unlucky are those who, for all their hate of national socialism, hope against hope to oppose our successive steps down the desperate road to war, who cannot bring themselves to believe that opposition to the evils of Naziism drives us, by logic and fate, straight to the battlefields...
...spread and publication. Like any other intellectual arguments, they must be met and refused purely on the basis of their own content and merit. The CRIMSON feels that in printing the two advertisements to which Messrs. Rand, Dur, and Field refer, it contributed to its readers' knowledge of the logic of American Fascism, and, thereby, to their ability to meet that logic...
Known for his work in symbolic logic, Lowis is the author of "Mind and the World-Order," was an officer in World War 1, and has been teaching here for 20 years...