Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relation of Logic to Psychology" will be the subject of an address in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock tonight by Bertrand Russell, world famous English philosopher. The lecture, open to the public, is given under the auspices of the Department of Philosophy...
...former CRIMSON editor, I am naturally interested in your recent editorial comment on the proposed charity football game. And though I am forced to concede to you powers of logic, I nevertheless disagree with both your approach to the subject and your conclusion...
...physics, says Russell, cannot yet be translated into plain English. "Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. . . . The men of science have not said nearly as much as they are thought to have said, and in the second place what they have said in the way of support for traditional religious beliefs has been said by them not in their cautious, scientific capacity, but rather in their capacity of good citizens...
...There is in war itself something be yond mere logic and above cold reason. There is something in war-made values above social comfort, above ease, and even above religion. It is the mysterious power war gives to life of rising above mere life...
...first jurists mentioned when a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court of the U. S. When the question of Horse Doctor Doyle's immunity came to him in the homely old study of his uptown Manhattan house he found it a question of the sort he loves, of logic and the law. Judge Cardozo could find no satisfactory previous ruling on such a case. But fearing that "grave prejudice to the cause of public justice might ensue" if Dr. Doyle jumped bail and disappeared, he decided that the appellant must go to jail until the whole Court of Appeals...