Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Korzybski was a Polish-born mathematician and physicist, part crank and part genius, who regarded his theory as a whole new science of life. Our language, argued Korzybski, does not reflect reality, and its structure does not correspond to the seen or unseen world. Its grammar, based on Aristotelian logic, implies primitive philosophical concepts tied to the prescientific past. All this leads to emotional disturbances and frustrations, known as semantic shock. Korzybski prescribed some mental tricks to guard against this disorder. Take, for instance, the old hit song: "Falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful...
...there were a single apt image for Henry Kissinger's role in Vietnam, it would be one of the global diplomat clinging to stability, maintaining order, concerned with honor and prestige. And it is in Vietnam that the Nixon-Kissinger policy has reached the limit of its logic and faced the acid test...
Kilbridge himself has been unavailable for comment since Tuesday, but a memorandum written by him on December 31 and entitled "Difficulties with the So-called Rogers Motion" lays out most of the logic behind the change...
...ugly exchange in which a prominent law professor assails the intellectual credentials of the head of the Afro-American Studies Department.) No wonder, when King returns to Washington, he feels that by June 1970, "black hopes had crashed to their lowest point in a decade" and that "logic dictates that a racial Armageddon awaits the American future." As he quotes Roger Wilkins, "In places where it counts, America is a white country...
PASZTOR'S logic on the question of whether James Humes had agreed to speak at the second teach-in is somewhat convoluted. He suggests that Day should have believed the possible statements of an unnamed secretary about Humes' speaking schedule rather than the actual statement, made by telephone to her of Humes himself. We suggest to Pasztor that Humes would have known whether he was scheduled to fly to Boston to make a speech...