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...wanted to write a major book that laid out my thoughts and current views as best as I could do it in a single volume. What I’m trying to do is lay out in a sense what I consider to be the central logic of Darwinian theory, what are the few essential postulates. I show how in the first half, the historical half, how the subject has always been a subject of debate, even in the nineteenth century, and then the second half is devoted to how I think revisions need to be made to all three...
...those under 21, raves tend to be much more friendly to the underage than Lansdowne and its associates. For the logic behind this, see the last sentence of reason number four...
...meeting several Faculty members, including Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren Goldfarb ’69, said they felt cum laude honors should be retained but added that the grade cut-off for granting honors outside of concentration work should be raised...
...essential part of academic life, we err in asserting that it reigns sophisticated where the less suspicious nature stands simplistic. In “The Will to Believe” William James, himself no rube, wrote, “Moral skepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual skepticism can…The skeptic with his whole nature adopts the doubting attitude; but which of us is the wiser. Omniscience only knows.” While it is our prerogative to believe in nothing before we believe in something that could be wrong...
...causes” of terrorism is perhaps noble and perspicacious, but it does nothing to address the present problem. There are thousands of militants whose only “cause” is to inflict terror upon Israel. Such militants cannot be swayed by reason or logic, but they can be stopped by force...