Word: logicality
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Radical Harvard was not entirely content. One hundred students walked out of the official ceremony to a counter-commencement where Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Hilary Putman proclaimed, “Cambridge may now be the first place to have a true worker-student alliance...
...refrain from responding to attacks from Pakistani-controlled territory. India could opt to launch air strikes or even commando raids at training camps used by the insurgents on the Pakistani-controlled side of Kashmir and in Pakistan itself. But once battle is joined, it may quickly assume a dangerous logic of escalation...
...worldwide caution warning American citizens of possible attacks. That month, says a recently retired senior FBI official, "we were constantly worried that something was going to happen. Our best guesstimate was something in Southeast Asia." A French investigator involved in al-Qaeda cases confirms the thought. "The prevailing logic from around 1998," he says, "was that al-Qaeda and bin Laden had very openly designated America as its prime target--but it was a target that it preferred to attack outside...
...turns its back on all kinds of international agreements like the landmine ban, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty or the International Criminal Court (ICC). The smaller players frame the issue in terms of goodness; the real game, however, is power, and both sides know it. What is the logic? For the U.S., land mines come in handy when its intervention forces in the Balkans or the Middle East need protection against a counterattack. Ditto missile defense: invulnerability to nuclear strikes makes it so much easier to, say, defend Taiwan against a Chinese assault. Or to go after Saddam...
...patterns emerging from his computer resembled all sorts of scientific phenomena--the subatomic trails emerging from a particle accelerator, the diagrams of curved space-time that arise from Einstein's equations, the spread of evolutionary changes in organisms through time, the graphic equivalent of different kinds of mathematical logic. "Under every conceptual rock I turned over," says Wolfram, "there's been this amazing wildlife I never expected to find...