Word: logics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over salami sandwiches and coffee, talk of logic machines and rocket fuels filled the evenings of the members of the "Speculative Society." During the succeeding years, the Society met now and then, here and there, discussing this and that...
...session, for example, came Batteau's idea for a "logic toy," a gadget that would respond to the rules of formal logic and produce a correct answer to any logical problem fed it. Batteau, who had taken logic courses with Professor Quine and others, felt that all the rules could be set up in electronic circuits. He proceeded to construct the machine, "just for fun," and today a small box in Batteau's office can answer simple logical propositions fed into...
...meetings. Often, Campbell would come to town, the "Society" would meet, and the following month Astounding Science Fiction would contain a story about robot brains and thinking machines. Once, Ted Kalin, who now works for Project "Lincoln," and Bill Burkhardt, regular "members" at large, actually built a large logic computer which could tackle intricate logical problems with great ease. Nothing much came of the thing, except that several scientists wore satisfied grins for a few months...
...John Leverett became President. He made no important changes in the curriculum, which continued strong in logic, rhetoric, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, ethics, and metaphysics, and remained weak in mathematics and science...
...logic of Hussein's position was compelling, but logic is not the loudest voice these days in Jordan's tumultuous streets, filled as they are with bitter and revengeful Palestine refugees, who make up a third of Jordan's population. In the end the real winner of this week's election seems likely to be the third vulture...