Word: logics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is little logic to Lat's apparent assumption that men who love men or women who love women are any more--or less--motivated by sexual impulses than men and women who love each other...
Romano posits that theoretically, MacKinnon would disagree with his assertion of innocence on the grounds that since he described her rape in print, he is actually guilty of rape itself. Romano argues it is in this absurd perversion of logic and the law that Only Words breaks down, because the real breathing MacKinnon does not believe that she was raped be Romano simply because he wrote about...
...already done it?) The film takes place in the year 1999, when the crime problem has ratchetted up a few notches. Driving home from work, Jessica sees random fights on the streets, and when she enters a bar, a computerized sensor announces, "Weapons clear." Despite a few lapses in logic -- even for a man whose appeals are exhausted, how can an execution be scheduled this precisely? -- the film, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (Stephen King's "It") from a script by Thomas Baum (The Manhattan Project), unfolds with caustic plausibility, from the outbreak of T-shirt merchandisers to the anti...
...Zeno's Paradox, of course, states that a traveler going from, say, New York to San Francisco must first travel half the distance between the two cities, and then must go half the distance between that point and the destination, then half the distance again, so that, by this logic, he will never arrive where he wanted to go. One-half, one-third, any fraction will do. At a guess, rape would drop by 90% if such a punishment were enforced...
...plans to admit gays to the military was still high -- many veterans turned their backs on the new Commander in Chief and shouted catcalls. Last week Clinton denied he had put a commercial gold rush ahead of veterans' concerns, which a top aide insisted were his "sole consideration." The logic was that Vietnam needed a show of good faith by the U.S. to ensure settling the MIA issue permanently...