Word: theorems
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...homiletic, catechetical and religious in tone (the promise of an unprecedented revelation to the merely human race has the strangest effect on the nonbeliever). At any rate, the mixture of science and religion is curious, as if Billy Sunday had undertaken a sermon on the subject of the binomial theorem...
...theories of economics. In 1938, while a Junior Fellow, Samuelson published "Revealed Preference," a paper which analyzes consumption solely in terms of market data and not in terms of utility, as in the past. He also developed a "Synthesis of the Multiplier and the Accelerator" and the Stopler-Samuelson Theorem of international trade...
...bald theorem, the story is nothing much. But White uses poetic means to suggest the self-defeat of a woman in whose face life has closed its door. Promised a view of an "estuary of black swans," Anthea imagines herself standing on the promontory that is covered by paperbark trees, near enough to see the writhing of the black necks. "Did she altogether want? Or touch the papery bark, flaking down, down around the grey dunny,* into opalescent scales. Sun and wind, to say nothing of moonlight, had worked upon the paper-barks. Better to watch without becoming involved...
...scientist's concern with the present, with experimental evidence, and with codifying laws, is antithetical to a classically oriented program of General Education. When a scientist is concerned with the history of science, that history is extracurricular; the test of an economic theorem, a psychological law, or a chemical equation is its validity, not its history...
...that the short story is not only for light jugglery. The publishers invoke the names of Mary McCarthy and Simone de Beauvoir to suggest the quality of Mrs. Lessing's talents, but she lacks the argumentativeness of either intellectual lady. She does not argue: she points. Only a theorem or a diagram could be as bare-or as indestructible-as her strongly jointed fictional essays...