Word: logics
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...coherence. What perverse monsters we are to do this for a grade. It’s bad enough that we distort the world with notions of cause and effect, presence and absence, positive and negative, either and or—conventions of thought which become fetters when naturalized as logic. After the organic joy of thought has been exterminated, we drive the mental engine onward through the formal ruse of argument. Our very ideas are bellicose, formed to know their enemies and seek to destroy them. Our delight is in the death-march of the argument over the novel notion...
...face across the bargaining table. But assuming that Kim is driven primarily by a desire to stay in power, he might realize his nuclear plan has a fundamental flaw. Using or threatening to use the bomb will almost certainly spell the end of his regime, no matter the cost. Logic should be telling him that the only sure way he can survive is by giving up his nukes, in return getting much-needed aid and living to be obnoxious another...
...Lauren asks about the celibacy thing. “I’m going to change that,” he tells us, explaining his intention to marry a woman while Pope. What if the Catholics don’t go for that? Andy is once again armed with logic. “If I’m the Pope, they can’t kill me,” he reasons. Hmm, most competitive class in history? I don’t know about that...
...real life provided so many classic frat-boy-comedy moments? "By the end of the week I felt my teeth eroding from the margarita mix," says Roxanne, a sophomore at Texas Tech and one of the twins. "There was never a sober moment. We woke up with margaritas." Alcohol, logic dictates, has the same effect on films as bad writing: it turns young people into cliches. Not only do the 16 people sharing the phat Mexican hotel suite make out indiscriminately, curse and say stupid things, but they also indirectly deliver the requisite moral lesson of a teen comedy: casual...
...important debate regarding education reform. In order to leave no child behind, government establishes what it calls high standards, aligns curriculum and pedagogy with these so-called standards, tests students to see if they meet the standards, and holds students, teachers, and schools accountable for test results. The logic is clear, but the premise is false. The standards-based movement, including our local version, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), is based on the faulty assumption that standardized instruction and standardized tests breed high intellectual standards and that the “standards” established will truly break...