Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March, 1933, growing warier in the late spring, doubting carnestly by July, when he sees "moral coercion by means of the blue eagle and the boycott" forcing small businesses into line with the N. R. A.'s strict discipline toward an undefined objective. He writes incisively of the logic behind general strikes, while the San Francisco movement of July, 1934, is dying because its leaders refuse to let the general strike fulfill its only possible destiny: revolution. Here he culls good from bad in discussing Section 7 (a), urging the Government to give up the hopeless job of enforcing "compulsory...
...professors brought forth vague plans, and even these did not agree. A Frenchman was fatuous, an American was reflective, an Englishman was optimistic, but it took a Chinaman to pour cold water on the whole project in a stream of heartless logic. While Dr. Etienne Gilson had the European's traditional and misplaced confidence in the American public, Professor Malinowski of London asserted sensibly that any such organization hopeful of success must be backed by force. Here is nothing new. There is no doubt today that a League of Nations with "horsepower" would enforce the peace its founders dreamed...
Rudolf Carnap, leader of the so-called "Vienna Circle" of logical positivists, outlined the three requirements of logical thinking as clarity, consistency and adequate evidence. In an address entitled simply "Logic," he pointed out that a statement which may appear to be an assertion is often only a command or a volitive expression...
...when you conclude that this type of campaigning is necessary in the State which has the highest percentage of illiterates in its population you flee from logic. With our Niggers not voting, as they don't, our electorate is nearly or quite as literate as your own borough of Manhattan. . . . Wouldn't the joint campaign system be as useful in Tammany's domain as among our good white Democrats...
...discourse on "Uncertain Inferences" Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher of the University of London, onetime investment statistician, conveyed the idea that, though mathematical logic may compress uncertainty into a small area, the smaller the area the greater the uncertainty. He gave a problem which, if it were not for the uncertainty of inferences, would be readily solvable: "The agricultural land of an Egyptian village is of unequal fertility. The fertility of every portion is known with exactitude, but the height of the Nile affects different parts of the territory unequally. It is required to divide the area between the several households...