Word: rationale
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The Puritan ethos was a stimulus to striving and hard work; no wonder that it gave way to its secular descendant, pragmatism-the uniquely American philosophy articulated by C. S. Peirce, Dewey and William James. Americans are the exemplars of pragmatism, of rational humanism. The pragmatist, of course, does not...
Dr. W. William Kemmerer quarantine manager of Houston's Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the accident occurred, said yesterday afternoon that he thought the risk of contamination from the moon rocks was "very low." but that the quarantine procedures were "necessary and rational."
This carelessness has a deeper explanation than "naivete," but it is one that Moynihan ignores. It is often in the self-interest of government agencies to ignore the secondary consequences of their decisions. It facilitates both their survival and expansion. In the real world there exists little rational planning. The...
Yesterday afternoon, I met for an hour and a half with three members of the Personnel Office: Messrs. Kielly, Powers and Moulton, Perhaps I will be criticized for what may seem to some as a "ruling class position" but I must admit that I was impressed not only by the...
As memories of the April takeover and Stander's radical course Soc Rel 149 fade away, Stander can more readily present himself to his colleagues as a rational social anthropologist rather than a high-strung radical.