Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week Jimmy Byrnes concluded that the answer was yes. His health was fine (a heart scare that led to his resignation as Secretary of State had proved a false alarm) and his election almost certain. His three opponents in the Democratic primary-the only election that counts-were scarcely serious competition for a man who had been Secretary of State, a Supreme Court Justice, and assistant President to Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...everybody at the meeting fluttered yellow booklets called Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Security Council. If a majority of the Council nations follow the fashion of recognizing Red China, can the Council oust Tsiang? Or can Tsiang use China's Big Power veto to block this? The answer depends on whether the question of ouster is procedural (not vetoable) or substantive (vetoable). If the Council majority tries to decide that an ouster is procedural, then China may try to veto this decision before the Council goes on to a second vote on the ouster issue itself. Such action...
...second, uses them when needed, and then rubs them out like chalk marks on a blackboard. It does all these things and more, without mistakes, faster than a human being can jot down a single figure. When the machine is through with one calculation, it rattles out the answer on an electric typewriter and starts the next job in a flash...
...surrounded by beetling walls of unscalable figures. The hazy paths of electrons whirling around a nucleus, the speeding flow of air over an airplane's wing, the structure and reactions of complex chemical molecules-all these involve continents and oceans of figures, figures, figures. Sometimes a simple answer (a small number, or even a yes or a no) would cost a lifetime or 100 lifetimes of human calculation...
What Is Thinking? Do computers think? Some experts say yes, some say no. Both sides are vehement; but all agree that the answer to the question depends on what you mean by thinking...