Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threshold of a fascinating argument: "The Mechanistic philosophy is as much a myth as the story of Persephone." But alas, it is at the end of his article. This point is reached through a wealth of fascinating but laborious detail. Jung has discussed the myth similarly but with succinct logic. Heidegger's denial of "language as a mere sign" is a double proof for it affirms it s reasoning by the example of its won poetry. Berman, on the other hand, tries to make the point that "men are interrelated analogically." But he does so in analytic terms which...
Wasn't it amazing how the pollsters, observers and interpreters thought exactly like the marvelous mechanical brain? A rather pertinent reminder that juggling statistics is not necessarily logical reasoning. Just feed the same statistics, trends and facts into any number of minds and all will rearrange them into the same pattern, and though there may not be a single real thought or reasonable observation in the lot, the pattern is accepted as profound logic...
...Doctorate of Philosophy should be crassly unaware of the meanest elements of our cultural heritage, but it is alarming that these new Piltdown Men . . . should claim the right to unsupervised authority over us all. These people don't need authority. They need a course in elementary logic, a McGuffey's Reader and perhaps a Gideon Bible...
Republican Majority Leader William Knowland's now famous speech warning against the dangers of an "atomic stalemate" has been much criticized for warmongering, doom-merchandising and bad logic. But in all the criticism of Sen. Knowland's position, no really convincing answer to the questions he posed has been forthcoming. First, he senses that a deal with the Soviets may be in the making. Second, Knowland wants also to serve notice on the Communist rulers that there is a price which the United States will not pay for peace. Third, he wants to remind the American people that...
...reasons for the stronger Democratic showing on governors than on Senators were mostly local or personal. One national factor was that Eisenhower's popularity is even less transferable to G.O.P. candidates for governorships than for Congress. Voters who saw a certain element of logic in the President's appeal for a Republican Congress saw no reason why Ike needed Republican governors. Thus the Republicans lost one of their great 1952 advantages, the fact that they controlled a majority of governorships...