Word: deductionism
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For the other five of every 100 taxpayers there were other benefits. The optional standard deduction was switched from a flat $500 to 10% of net income (so long as it does not exceed $1,000). Thus, the $8,000-a-year man could list $800 for deductions if he...
Lectures and subsequent discussions will be informal, and will attempt to give insight into the interplay of "observation, deduction, and imagination" in physical theories, and the relation between physical theory and the intellectual environment.
This deduction is not justified. Masaryk was a liberal middle class democrat of the best sort. He was in sympathy with the progress that was being made in his country. He clearly did not support those, reactionary forces which sought to check it. However, after the events of two weeks...
In 1933 Chicago rang with a rumor that Petrillo had been kidnaped from a suburban nightclub and that other union officers had seen fit to buy him back for $50,000. Jimmy issued shrill denials, distributed a C.P.A. report on the union's finances which showed no $50,000...
After unifying mathematics and logic, Whitehead moved out into bigger playgrounds. "Philosophy," he remarked, "asks the simple question, 'What is it all about?' " Modern science had introduced new, disturbing concepts like relativity and the quantum theory that never bothered 19th Century thinkers. One of the first and ablest...