Word: logical
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...January, Summers seemed to take this foolish logic to heart, frowning at Adams House Masters Sean and Judy Palfrey’s House-wide e-mail opposing the war in Iraq. Sounding oddly like his own accusers, Summers appeared to think that the Palfreys’ strong, reasoned opinion should remain under wraps simply because they were University officials. Many who had supported him earlier were shaken. Before he had merely expressed his own view—why, now, was Summers proving his critics right three months later by telling others not to express theirs? More criticism came...
...found logic on something that looked totally random,” Bois said...
Doing nothing because one can’t do everything is not an ethical line of conduct, as far as I am concerned. No humanitarian aid organization would have ever been created upon such a defeatist logic. One has to start somewhere, if only to shake up the terrible apathy that settles in, the paralyzing depression. At the very least, a debate on this issue has to be launched...
...ideas out in the open, shine a light on them and let the competition begin. Debate on a foundation of data and logic and the most robust ideas will triumph. It is in a free marketplace of ideas that the best thinking prevails...
...hardcore crosstown football or hockey—men’s or women’s—rivalry would make sense on some abstract level. A crew gang war would defy both logic and description...