Word: logics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what they were taught, master such new (to them) terms as Cartesian products, null sets and strict inequalities. "In trigonometry, for instance," says Supervisor Hoel, "the emphasis used to be on surveying and navigation. Now the emphasis is on vectors, the theory of sets, probability, statistics and symbolic logic...
...long," he says. The first step in that direction is a new seminary with an enrollment of , more than 100 students on a 15-year course. One of his biggest problems: witchcraft, which he lets alone as long as it sticks to medicine, but attacks with a combination of logic and ridicule when it spills over into prophecy and sympathetic magic. Last year Bishop Bigirumwani consecrated Swiss Bishop Andre Perraudin at Kabgaye, Ruanda-the first white bishop ever to be consecrated by a Negro bishop on the African continent...
COMMON SENSE AND THE FIFTH AMENDMENT, by Sidney Hook. Plentifully supported by logic and his own common sense, Philosopher Hook shows how sentimental, not too commonsensical liberals have accepted the Fifth Amendment as a shelter for the just and the unjust alike. Sidestepped by many reviewers and attacked by others, it makes more sense about the Fifth than any book in years...
...second Noble lecture, he asserted that "man is fundamentally not mind, not organism, but history." The Greek idea of complete dependence on the logic of man's mind is not altogether good, Miller asserted. He felt that references to traditions and old loyalties were just as valuable as scientific reasoning...
Should It Be Done? Yes, without qualification. NATO's Lauris Norstad was perhaps first and foremost in grasping the logic of launching IRBMs from European bases. His proposition, pushed hard during a trip to Washington last week: the IRBMs would be under the control of the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe (currently, the U.S.'s Norstad). Since only SACEUR could order the weapons into war, no individual nation, bent on some strictly nationalistic adventure, could toss them off into the wild blue yonder. NATO's IRBM launchers would be manned by European troops-but they would...