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Logic is a very specialized field, taken only by a few men, but this is no reason to shy away if you happen to be interested in the logical method. Quine is himself a famous logician, and his Phil. 1 is excellently handled. But before taking it, have a good memory and be able to think symbolically...
Denied a further extension of his four-month alien visitor's permit, rabbity British Earl Bertrand Arthur William Resell, famed libertarian logician, found he must leave the U. S. by year's end. Not anxious for U. S. citizenship, but wishing to qualify for a permanent chair of philosophy at the University of California (where he has been lecturing), Earl Russell will go to Ensenada, Mexico, try to persuade the U. S. consul there to admit him permanently...
...problem is not sufficiently abstruse to require the services of a logician. A mere student of semasiology will recognize the employment of the word accident in this case as being entirely dependent upon the motive and intent of the golfer. . . . The result of the manner in which he uses his clubs is one of perfection or imperfection, not chance...
...finished talking there was only a sprinkle of clapping. The New York Herald Tribune observed in a notable understatement that the speech left its hearers "grumpy." No public rebuttal developed, the bankers retiring in groups to their offices to sputter such redundant epithets as "inconsistent meddler," "impractical reformer," "theoretical logician...
...Britain's great mathematicians is a bony, bulge-browed Peer named Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell of Kingston Russell, Viscount Amberley of Amberley & Ardsalla. He is also famed as a philosopher, logician, pacifist, historian, author, lecturer. But it is doubtful if the name of Bertrand Russell would ever have become a household word in English-speaking lands had not the blue-blooded Earl and his free-thinking second wife set out some years ago to educate the world in what they considered the ways of sexual happiness. Now familiar to every schoolgirl, their views once more made news...