Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russell wrote his first major work, The Principles of Mathematics, at the breakneck rate of 200,000 words in three months. The book was designed to liberate numbers from the mystique that had clung to them since the days of Pythagoras and to demonstrate that all mathematics derives from logic. The three-volume Principia Mathematica took Russell and Whitehead ten years. Most of it is completely inaccessible to non-mathematicians, but not all. For example, it contains a careful explication of what is generally considered Russell's greatest philosophical "discovery": the Theory of Descriptions...
Common sense suggests that the safest way to induce an abortion is to use the hormone oxytocin, which nature produces when it is time for a fetus to leave the womb. But nature does not always abide by man's logic. Oxytocin in large doses can induce an abortion, but not until the 20th week of pregnancy. And most unwanted pregnancies should be ended no later than the 16th week. Until now this has required surgical intervention-scraping out the contents of the womb, which involves some risk of bleeding and infectious complications even in a well-run hospital...
...book- The Ultimate Folly: War by pestilence, asphyxiation and defoliation- is a summary of his findings in that investigation. The book is extremely well written, with very readable prose and coherent logic behind the rhetoric. Beyond that, the book is undoubtedly the most revealing and thorough examination of America's CBW policy done to date. Because of the importance of this subject and the superb manner in which McCarthy explains his information, The Ultimate Folly should be read by anyone concerned about America's military policy...
Naturally enough, one of the many sponsors of In Transit is James Joyce, "my great Triestine compalien, the comedichameleon, the old pun gent himself." The punning and the aesthetic trinity of Evelyn Hilary, the fictional "I" and Miss Brophy herself persist with vengeful logic to the very end. There, on the last page, the author signs off with a drawing of a fish with the word fin on its fin. Does it mean the end, or does Miss Brophy expect us to follow indefinitely in Finnegans wake like so many gulls...
Laboratory Logic. Why did it take so long for the diagnosis to be made? Mainly because in the '50s no one expected to see such behavior in developed countries, least of all among sophisticated personnel in a great medical center. In an age of scientific medicine, it seemed much more logical to send specimens to the laboratory and put them under the microscope...