Word: logical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...queer logic to term anything right and normal just because it happens, but that is what Kinsey and his coworkers have done," Zimmerman stated. According to the report, "even the acts of the sexual athlete and the esoteric are to be considered normal...
Granting the simple logic of this approach, admitting the success of the venture thus far, the thoughtful undergraduate might well wonder what his chances for a job will be in 1951 under such a system. Other schools--among which Yale is an out-standing example--lay much more emphasis on placement and much less on discovering aptitudes and inclinations. In a time when jobs are scarce, the Yale man who has been told precisely where his best chances lie is likely to have a distinct advantage over the Harvard man who has been told that he would make a good...
Only by uniting the U.S. and Europe's democracies in a federal union with common citizenship, Roberts thinks, can the U.S. draw the poison from this donor-beggar relationship. Roberts appealed to a higher logic than dollars & cents: "Free men are the best assets we have outside the U.S.; men who think and act like...
...Philosophy) appeared last year (TIME, May 12). After a nine-year collaboration with his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, Whitehead wrote the monumental Principia Mathematica (1910). This book approached mathematics not as a science of magnitude but as a science of deduction; it undertook to replace two existing sciences-logic and mathematics-by one new science, mathematical logic. Because Whitehead felt that "conventional English is the twin sister to barren thought" and that words are coated with ambiguities, he developed a language of mathematical symbols to express logical truths. This kept the Principia off bestseller lists...
After unifying mathematics and logic, Whitehead moved out into bigger playgrounds. "Philosophy," he remarked, "asks the simple question, 'What is it all about?' " Modern science had introduced new, disturbing concepts like relativity and the quantum theory that never bothered 19th Century thinkers. One of the first and ablest philosophers of modern science, Whitehead in Science and the Modern World (1925) sought to catch up with these experimental and theoretical advances, and organize them. Whitehead deplored the current tendency to overemphasize observation and experiment ("Can we elucidate the turmoil of Europe by weighing its dictators, its prime ministers...