Word: logics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much as any American, seemed for a time to be raising his own ante, apparently making it more difficult for the U.S. to extricate itself from Southeast Asia. One State Department dissenter from the bombing observed gloomily early last week: "Tomorrow it may be different, but all reason and logic and history are against the North Vietnamese making substantive concessions because of the bombing...
...commission recommended a lenient stance on contraception, but the Pope, in a startling twist of logic, rejected the report because it went against what the church had previously maintained. Why did he set up a commission in the first place if it could not come up with any new findings? The Pope seemed to be subscribing to the "Galileo syndrome which demands that any error made by church authority must be sustained by a thousand subsequent and reinforcing errors, each more egregious as reality becomes ever harder to oppose...
...which were laid stones, labeled A, B, X and Y, with such observations written below as "If X is between A and B, A and B are not identical." What, one wonders, are such minimalities doing in an art gallery rather than a child's primer of logic? Gallery space is not, in fact, necessary: one of Robert Barry's conceptual efforts required that the door of his gallery be locked and adorned with this notice: "For the exhibition, the gallery will be closed...
...chapter titles: "On the first perusal plain common sense should appear on the second severe truth and on third beauty." Within this structure, Cavell allows himself free rein to follow the pattern of symbol and image through out Walden without regard to either chronology or, at times, formal logic...
...diffuse book that Cavell seeks. He synthesizes the economic and natural imagery, and the religious and mythical allusions, fitting them into the author's philosophical framework. However, Cavell's own writing style also begs for a "higher reading," He leaves many ideas and even sentences unfinished and his disjointed logic often requires several readings of a given passage to unravel, Cavell tries to discover how to read Walden "in the high areas." The experience should ideally recreate the life in Walden, a difficult task which requires losing oneself through reading in order to rebuild oneself...