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Rudolf Carnap, leader of the so-called "Vienna Circle" of logical positivists, outlined the three requirements of logical thinking as clarity, consistency and adequate evidence. In an address entitled simply "Logic," he pointed out that a statement which may appear to be an assertion is often only a command or a volitive expression...
...Behind all this is the feeling that things are going to blow up. . . . The true strength of France lies in the fact that the land belongs almost entirely to small owners, the petit proprietaire of whom we hear so much. But unfortunately if the Communists get the command in France as they have done in Russia the petit pro-prietaire will merely become the hated kulak. And as there is no Siberia to which to send him he is likely to have a worse time than the Russian kulak...
...Publisher William Randolph Hearst visited Governor Alf Landon in Topeka last December, found the Kansas candidate to his liking and ordered his newspaper chain to support him full blast, there has been a Hearst issue in the 1936 Presidential campaign.* Not until last week, however, did the Democratic high command choose to bring this two-edged issue out of the political shadows, use it directly against the Republican nominee...
...sailing-master for Captain Cook at 22. On Cook's last voyage he acquitted himself well when that great explorer was killed by savages, had gained considerable reputation for his courage and swift decisions by 1787, when he was given command of the Bounty for her ill-fated voyage transporting breadfruit trees from the South Seas to the West Indies. Although Dr. Mackaness roundly insists that Bligh was considerate of his men. quotes heretofore unpublished material to prove it, trouble soon broke out among officers and crew. Bligh's only remedy was a traditional dozen lashes for each...
...this mix-up got under way, the shadowy dwellers of the underworld began to appear. Misshapen, grotesque, these subterranean beings range from a philosophic ink salesman to thieves, ham actors, pool sharks, narcotic addicts, bartenders, shyster lawyers, all alike in their casual disloyalty, bitter humor, and command of tough talk. Pete faces a villainous environment with all the breezy self-confidence of the hero of a James Cagney melodrama, eventually licks it. But readers are likely to find Author Mclntyre's picture of the Philadelphia underworld too one-sided to be credible, and Pete's final triumph...