Word: logics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long Odds. Such apparent inconsistencies are trivial when compared with the slipshod logic of one of Temple's major premises. He invokes the belief of such sympathetic star trackers as Astronomer Carl Sagan and Astro physicist I.S. Shklovski'ï that intelligent life probably exists elsewhere in our galaxy. Out of billions of planets, so the argument goes, statistical probability dic tates that there must be some that have evolved like earth. But Temple seems confused about probability. "The odds against life occurring fairly frequently within our galaxy are impossible ones," he writes. In fact, odds must be long...
...FIRST VIEW sounds like a logical point in favor of the proponents. If those who knows the most about the research believe it is fine, then why bother to listen to the uninformed objections? Still, there are a few knowledgeable dissenters, including Erwin Chagaff of Columbia and Caltech's Sinsheimer. And, an analogy to another situation--decisions involving the military--shows just how flawed this logic is. After all who knows more about how to wage war than the generals, and yet recent experience tells us that the generals, so itching to launch their projects, need to be regulated...
...between the religious communities. But again, as in Ireland, the religious identifications have served as a deeply embittering factor. Observes Ralph Potter, professor of ethics at Harvard Divinity School: "We pick out that factor which puts most things into immediate order for us. Where religion satisfactorily encompasses the whole logic, it becomes the prime identifier. At the same time, that shorthand also traps people into a primarily religious identity...
...birthday), and made a group of antic movies (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) that needed dialogue for life's blood. Brooks' favorite weapon was the non sequitur (mankind's greatest invention, according to the 2,000 Year Old Man, was Saran Wrap). He also excelled at illogical logic and brassy, daffy asides, like the hermit in Young Frankenstein sulking because the monster had shambled off without sampling his espresso...
STRATFORD, Conn.--There is considerable logic in the American Shakespeare Theatre's decision this summer to fevive Artnur Miller's play about the Salem witch trials, The Crucible. This is, after all, a year in which special attention is being given to our country's history. The choice might well have fallen on Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, which dramatizes incidents in the American Revolution; but the AST gave us that play six years ago. Furthermore, would it not be better to offer a work not only about America but by an American...