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...mixture of Sanskrit scholarship and Indian history is vital, since he as long viewed them as inseparable. He is one of the few Sanskrit scholars to study the language in Indian. He and his wife sweltered almost a vear in Calcutta while Ingalls struggled through difficult tests with a logician poet called Kalipada...
Also on the list is Henry M. Sheffer '05, professor of Philosophy, a leading mathematical logician. Sheffer returned to his alma mater in 1916 and has been here ever since. Besides teaching, he has been developing the theories of Notational Relativity and Pre-Assertional Logic...
...cradle," confuses his philosophical asp with his theological elbow-and TIME comes tumbling after. What Adler would do is to identify philosophy with religion. Though this is not a new enterprise, Adler thinks that he has given it what it has for centuries lacked: a sound logical basis. Modern logicians (fusty gentlemen who, as a rule, do not hire others to do their doctoral research), many of whom are not positivists, refuse to preside at Adler's shotgun marriage. Thus Adler's quarrel is not only with positivism, but with all logical analysis. While he may be "probably...
Napoleon remained a logician, in his fashion, to the bitter end. Searching the past from St. Helena, he found a marvelously neat reason for his defeat at Waterloo. He attributed it largely to the stupidity of the Duke of Wellington, who selected a battlefield from which it was impossible to effect a retreat. Hence, Wellington & Co. had no option but to go on holding the field even after they had lost it. "Oh, strange irony of human affairs!" murmurs the exiled logician as he looks back on the blundering British...
...look for a nexus of springs pulling dashpots through baths of hydraulic oil when he peers at muscle fibers in electron microscope pictures, though this kind of model has had brilliant uses for some purposes. On the other hand he knows in a practical way, as the logician knows, that reasoning by analogy from dynamical properties of the model is liable to stumble over imperfections in the analogy...