Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctors and nurses are uncomfortable about withholding food and water, they are profoundly uneasy about actively assisting a suicide. Yet a seemingly / inexorable logic enters the picture: once it is acceptable to stand by and allow a patient to die slowly, why is it not more merciful to end life swiftly by lethal injection? What was once taboo is now openly discussed in academic journals: last March the New England Journal of Medicine published an article by twelve prominent physicians called "The Physician's Responsibility Toward Hopelessly Ill Patients." "It is difficult to answer such questions," the doctors wrote...
Although most students interviewed in a random survey yesterday agreed the all-male Fly Club should open its doors to women, they said they understood the logic of the state agency that dismissed the gender discrimination complaint yesterday...
...implication is clear. Mistakes can only be of one sort--errors of logic that lead them to derive incorrect conclusions from absolutely correct premises. Those premises are The Truth: homosexuality is immoral, abortion is immoral, contraception is immoral, sex for enjoyment is a violation of natural law. The Truth is immutable...
...intricate math weren't tricky enough, the logic behind the QRR is only more puzzling. The most useful applications of the test are to figure out grade point averages and to determine who blew the curve on a mid-term. I don't think increasing competition in this already too-intense place is responsible. People are a lot nicer when they don't care about grades because they can't figure them...
...There are a lot of skills used in business and in studying that are used in bridge, like risk evaluation, negotiation, judgement, processes of reason, logic and thought, and powers of concentration," Goldfarb said...