Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impression is that the professors and section leaders at Harvard are here for one purpose: to give and provide for the students," Bayley wrote in her letter to Buell. "I question the logic of letting go those contributors to our education who are willing to continue to give their energy to each class...
...support for gender equality in America becomes an ingrained conviction, many advocates no longer feel compelled to consider the logic behind the belief. Consequently, a goal which is generally laudable becomes reduced to a reactionary mantra, indiscriminately employed...
...Harvard, a clear example of the misapplication of this egalitarian principle is Women Appealing for Change, the group seeking the admittance of women by final clubs. The logic evidently runs thus: Final clubs are bad, therefore "more women...
This observation does not mean that people who chant "more women" never think. Rather, those who chant "more women" are so certain of their cause that they often fail to appreciate the logic behind the goal...
Thus, we should not be so surprised that the logic is often haphazardly misapplied, since the reasons for the conviction have long been lost in a cloud of passionate political slogans...