Word: prolegomena
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Academics ruin sex. They analyze it, explain it, deconstruct it, and by the time they're done, you wish they had stuck to talking about Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. So when the Museum of Sex opened in Manhattan, I shouldn't have been surprised that it was heavy on the museum and light on the sex. Maybe if it were called the Museum of Erotic History, I wouldn't have been as disappointed. But when I heard about the Museum of Sex, my mind shot right past museum and straight to the sex part. I think...
With these prolegomena, he launched into the discussion of the terms we have offered to debtor nations. He told how we had lent money to the Allies during and following the War at 5% interest, then considered a fair rate. He told how the British debt at the time of settlement amounted, with interest, to $4,600,000,000. In settling this account, we agreed to accept interest at the rate of 3% and 3½% during 62 years while the principal was being paid up. Meanwhile, the U. S. which borrowed the money to lend to Britain, is paying...
...presided at an oratorical contest in which five boys and two girls gave orations on the American Constitution. Four Justices of the Supreme Court were judges of the con-test-Van Devanter, Butler, Sutherland, Sanford. First prize ($3,500) was awarded to Don Tyler of Los Angeles. In his prolegomena, the President said: "Our constitutional system has justified itself not only in our own history, but in the fact that it has been accepted as the model upon which so many later experiments in democratic-republican institutions have been based...
...Logic," in Emerson F this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. In these lectures Dr. Sheffer has sketched the outlines of a philosophy based on recent developments in exact logic, and has discussed the following topics: the new logic and the old theory of knowledge; the elements of modern logic; prolegomena to a theory of knowledge and of reality; and the philosophy of Neutralism. In the concluding lecture, entitled "Modern Logic and the Naturalistic View of the World," he will summarize the results of the previous lectures and will indicate the scope and the possibilities of the philosophy of Neutralism. This...
LECTURES ON A PROGRAMME OF PHILOSOPHY, BASED ON MODERN LOGIC. XI. "Prolegomena to a theory of Reality." (Concluded.) Dr. H. M. Sheffer. Emerson F, 3.30 P. M. Open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...