Word: logician
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...especially profound. As the play begins, some French villagers are passing their Sunday afternoon with trivial conversation. A rhinoceros thunders through the middle of town. A second follows, and a preposterous argument ensues. Did the rhinos have one or two horns, were they African or Asian? The town logician (J. Frank Lucas) confuses the people with his circuitous syllogisms, and M. Botard (Robert Gaus) insists that the rhinos couldn't possibly exist--or if they do, they must be stooges in a capitalist plot...
...Corbusier is, in outlook, a logician -- his thinking appears in patterns of severe, and consequently cold, equations. And his theories of design follow these patterns of thought. He places emphasis on industrial functionalism in his art and he pleads with architecture to keep pace with a changing industrial society. He describes the need for a technology which will serve vast populations and communities of people with due equality. The solution he finds for that need is in the rawness and the flexibility of concrete and the other austere materials which he seems to believe constitute an absolute return to nature...
...This Frenchman, who has so much order in his mind and so little in his acts, this logician who doubts everything, this lackadaisical hard worker, this enthusiast for tail coats and public gardens who goes about in sloppy clothes and strews the grass with litter, in short, this fickle, uncertain, contradictory nation-how could the Teuton sympathize with it, understand it, or trust...
...question period Albright asserted that the Greek Thales (whom he had earlier denied to be the first logician) had acquired his "familiarity with physics from his acquaintance with the law." But Thales merely collected examples, and did not develop inductive theorems from them...
...Arena. It is an exciting, if exacting spectator sport to see a spirited logician in broken-field running (using the split-hair formation) tear through a platoon of Platonists or a squad of schoolmen. Russell puts living and dead philosophers in the same intellectual arena. Turning to 6th century B.C. Greece, for example, he respects Anaximander's intuition that man is biologically related to fish, but laughs at his injunction that therefore man should not eat fish. "Whether our brethren of the deep cherish equally delicate sentiments towards us is not recorded," Russell snuffles in a donnish gibe...