Word: logics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head coach feels there is nothing more important in the world than his sport," he says. The one-time manager for the Harvard football team during his undergraduate days in Cambridge says he is faced with a "challenge in logic" each time he negotiates with a coach...
...criminals as sick people who need to be cured: "If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as crime; and compulsorily cured." The KGB understands the logic...
...thinkers who created philosophy, there would be no atomic bombs." Barrett's narrative of the stages in between is highly speculative. But his hold on elusive ideas is so sure, his erudition so vast and effortless, that a coherent historical design gradually emerges: Aristotle's invention of logic culminated in the scientific discoveries of Kepler, Copernicus and Galileo in the 16th and 17th centuries, and, two centuries later, in the Nietzschean quest for "mastery over nature by its own instruments." This is the essence of scientific technology...
...comes from one of the three congressional districts that now do not get Impact Aid?but will do so, if the changes are enacted as expected. Says he: "Why make a distinction between the federal employee wearing a postal uniform and one wearing a Navy uniform?" It is on logic like this that Impact Aid will again glide through Congress. Yet until Congress and the public realize that Impact Aid is not funny money but comes from taxes on everyone, there is scant hope of controlling federal spending...
...protest was unavailing. Holmes helped himself to a drink from the gasogene. "Using nothing but logic, one can follow today's events and see deep into the next century. Of course, you have only my word...