Word: logic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't work. Today the new, improved version of human sociobiology--evolutionary psychology--is flourishing. Such scholars as Leda Cosmides, John Tooby and Steven Pinker (author of How the Mind Works) have begun to explain human language, logic and perception in Darwinian terms...
...more than 50 books penned over 74 years, Bertrand Russell set the terms of the debate in logic and philosophy in the first part of the century--most notably with Principia Mathematica (1910-13), written with philosopher Alfred North Whitehead...
...played a Swiss banker seeking investment opportunities. One alleged target, NRB Industries, has reportedly settled its case against Milliken. The $2 billion-a-year titan has denied the charges, but Johnston, a $330 million-a-year textile firm, claims it lost $30 million to the alleged skullduggery. "It defies logic," says president D. Clark Ogle, "that a company 10 times our size would feel threatened [enough] to do that...
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: In a unspectacular movie filled with incoherent gaps of logic, Blanchett provided the unifying arc. There is no doubt that her performance is a fierce, brave display of subtlety and strength. But Blanchett is foreign--and Gwyneth Paltrow is not. (Remember, this is the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...produce The Memorandum well, everyone involved must have a solid feel for the material's unique comedy and its subtle inner logic. Hostetler appears to have given his actors the freedom not only to become their characters, but to create them as well. The result is a supporting cast which takes full advantage of the idiosyncrasies already in Havel's text and also adds their own level of comedic interpretation. Although Hostetler's script diverges very little from Havel's, when it does, the additions and deletions illustrate a highly developed sense of humor and an intimate knowledge...