Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your excellent review of Scotland's contribution to Britain's prosperity, it might not have been out of place to record a truly remarkable fact concerning three men of outstanding achievement in 20th-century science: John Logic Baird in television, Sir Robert Watson-Watt in radar, and Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. All were born and bred north of the Tweed. This makes them British, but never English...
...their first year, Law students must take four required full courses: Procedure, Property, Contracts, and Torts. The Committee's report said the Law School attempts to "supplant the often vague generalization of undergraduate learning with the case method's focus on rigorous logic and precise expression." Brewster said the School has not yet found any suggestion for a change that would not "weaken and dilute the rigors of legal analysis...
...18th and 19th centuries science began to drive away the mysteries-and the reason-in faith. Logic and faith were thought of almost as incompatible, and increasingly, religion fell back on emotion...
...favoring the argument based on order in the universe, Americans chart a new swing of an old pendulum. Medieval man also saw God in the order of things, but his universe fitted snugly around him, with the world at the center. Outside the world and inside his head, logic ruled. St. Thomas Aquinas formulated his five famed proofs of God's existence with a respect for logic that is not commonly part of modern man's mental furniture. Aquinas rates the proof derived from order last-the other four: 1) motion-the passing from power to act-implies...
...asking France to take precautions against the Soviet danger before taking precautions against the German danger," cried rightist General Adolphe Aumeran. "Without our agreement Amer ica will not dare rearm Germany." Insisted Gaullist Jacques Soustelle: "Every effort to get a modus vivendi with the East must be sought first. Logic dictates it . . . an alliance with Russia is a geopolitical must for France." Complained old Paul Reynaud, the man who was Premier in 1940 when France fell: "The Paris accords give the political hegemony to England and the military hegemony to Germany." Doddering old Edouard Herriot summarized for the fearful...