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Word: tricking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Walker Bush the front runner--but he knows it won't take him where he wants to go. And so, at a time when he isn't saying much of anything else, George W. is working hard to signal that he's his own man. This is a neat trick in a family and country that value loyalty but worship winners. Which is why just about every time the Governor sits down with a group of pilgrims to Austin, he makes an important safety announcement. "This is not going to be George H.W. Bush, Part 2," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Bush Rolodex | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Philosophical Investigations, he catches his interlocutors in the act of being suckered by their overconfident intuitions about what their words mean--what their words must mean, they think--when they talk about what's going on in their own minds. As he says, "The decisive moment in the conjuring trick has been made, and it was the very one that we thought quite innocent." (Today's neuroscientists fall into these same traps with stunning regularity, now that they have begun trying to think seriously about consciousness. Unfortunately, Wittgenstein's work has not been appreciated by many scientists.) But didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: Philosopher | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...such a simple shift of perspective, Godel wrought deep magic. The Godelian trick is to imagine studying what might be called "Martian-producible numbers" (those numbers that are in fact theorems in the Martian textbooks), and to ask questions such as, "Is or is not the number 8030974 Martian-producible (M.P., for short)?" This question means, Will the statement '8030974' ever turn up in a Martian textbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mathematician KURT GODEL | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...scholarly account of the plan file is complete without a few critical suggestions. In order for the plan file to survive as a genre, it must continually reinvent itself both in terms of form and content. What makes for a successful plan file? The trick is either to be fascinatingly banal or else ambitiously epic. For example, keep a list of everything you've eaten, item by item, in the last week: "Two Snickers bars, eight cups of soup, one serving of baked scrod...".Update us on your nightly dreams. Transcribe your internal monologue in the most minute detail: "Itchy...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: Deconstructing the Plan File | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

...Clinton scandal galvanized its core audience, and Fox seems the most reluctant of the three to let the story die. Last week it reported that Hillary Clinton no longer wants to be "in the same bed" with her husband. Yet Fox executives insist the channel is not a one-trick pony. "We're doing political and Washington news for people who like political and Washington news," says chief Washington correspondent Brit Hume. "That may be only a few hundred thousand people, but that's plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Post-Scandal Blur | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

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