Word: logics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal and Chairman Fletcher was set as a watch dog over him. Senator Glass refused to be hurried. He insisted on hearing everyone. Unable to outvote his fellow committeemen, he spent two months educating them in the problems of banking. Bit by bit he won them around by logic, bit by bit got Governor Eccles' friends to compromise, bit by bit got the bill changed...
...hurt you when I press?" With a sensitive person, sick or well, pressure on the styloid process will hurt keenly, whereas the hyposensitive will suffer not at all. Having thus fundamentally classified his patient, the diagnostician can then proceed to string symptoms on one of two lines of medical logic...
...finds himself in a thicket of abstract statements and scholarly quotations, quickly discovers that Pareto's first purpose is to establish a strict political realism, to make sociology a pure science, comparable to astronomy or mathematics. Says the Italian professor: "We are in no sense intending ... to exalt logic and experience to a greater power and majesty than dogmas accepted by sentiment. Our aim is to distinguish, not to compare, and much less to pass judgment on the relative merits and virtues of those two sorts of thinking...
...That's not queer at all," interrupted the Mad Hutter, who was feeling very sprite this May morning, "it's just you don't understand logic...
...That again," continued the Hatter in a very superior tone, "is because your knowledge of logic isn't complete. You know that by induction you get a general conclusion from many particulars, and by deduction a single proposition comes from two conclusions: well, by another special from of logic we get a civilization loss of some 50,000,000 able-bodied citizens and we conclude the world is safe for democracy. That form of logic, my dear child, is reduction. And it's quite the vogue today...