Word: logical
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...play’s greatest strengths is that by its conclusion, deranged characters and convoluted plotting no longer seem strange. Everything seems to have its own internal logic, which becomes embraceable because the acting is so passionate and the laughs so consistent...
Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren Goldfarb ’69 said the “disjunctive conception” of cum laude honors is needed but added that the grade cut-off for granting honors outside of concentration work should be raised...
...state, and the people become conflated into a single entity. Thus, to criticize the government is tantamount to disparaging the state and the people. In America, we are as guilty of this as anyone. When President Bush declared the War on Terror, too few of us questioned the logic and methods behind our government’s plan. We thought that being patriotic meant supporting the government unconditionally. So nobody said anything when our pilots accidentally bombed and killed more than 3,000 innocent Afghan civilians. And nobody said anything when we aligned ourselves with war criminals like General Rashid...
Throughout the Cold War, the United States embraced the idea of nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction. Due to this counter intuitive logic, the U.S. and the USSR were able to survive decades of intense geopolitical competition without engulfing the world in a nuclear holocaust. Today, as then, the threat of nuclear retaliation may do much to prevent a world conflict...
...middle of this century. Before the middle of the 20th century, very few people, intellectuals included, considered the economy separate from moral beliefs of what should be. Over the last forty years, economics has become increasingly mathematized. On the surface, economics now seems like a science, ruled by steely logic rather than fuzzy morals...