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...discovering profound new truths about reality forever, or is the process finite? You seem to assume that because science has advanced so rapidly over the past few centuries, it will continue to do so, possibly forever. But this view is, to use your word, ahistorical, based on faulty inductive logic. In fact, inductive logic suggests that the modern era of explosive scientific progress might be an anomaly, a product of a singular convergence of social, intellectual and political factors. If you accept this, then the only question is when, not if, science will reach its limits. The American historian Henry...
...actual 'substance' of the LSAT, there isn't any," writes Pforzheimer House pre-law adviser Gene Koo in an e-mail message. "It's not like the MCAT--a lot of it involves reasoning and logic, and that's something that's hard to teach...
...Essay 30 pages. Study of logic as a cultivation of the mind...
...bottom line is that it's old drugs, new logic," said Harvard Medical School's Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery M. Judah Folkman, who heads the laboratory where the study was conducted...
...blamed the conflict with rival Pakistan for the testing, India was in fact wary of the growing power of China, its neighbor to the north, with whom India fought a war in 1962. American collaboration with the Chinese (who were already supplying Pakistan with nuclear technology) seemed to defy logic to the Indians, who had already seen America support military dictatorships in Pakistan during the Cold War. As a result, Indo-American relations since the testing have been decidedly cool...