Word: everydayness
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Nonetheless, the council's stand provoked a refreshing wave of concern on campus. For at least a week, students actively discussed the state of society around them and reminded themselves that sociology and government are but everyday realities and not just sections of the course book...
Against these powers, it seems impossible for ordinary people to tip the scales toward a view of rape that condemns rapists, not victims, just by protesting terms like "forcible rape." But ordinary people can count for a lot; after all, what influences our cultural views of rape if not everyday conversation...
EACH of us makes economic decisions everyday that worsen the environmental crisis. It is therefore within our capacity to take steps to reverse it. Although business decisions made at the corporate and national levels bear proximate responsibility for most environmental destruction, the choices we make as consumers ultimately render us just as culpable...
...Reasoning & Its Applications. The bedtime reading of scientists gone soft in the head? No, these academic tomes are the collected output of 25 years of mostly American research in fuzzy logic, a branch of mathematics designed to help computers simulate the various kinds of vagueness and uncertainty found in everyday life. Despite a distinguished corps of devoted followers, however, fuzzy logic has been largely relegated to the back shelves of computer science -- at least...
...baseball players. In standard Aristotelian logic, as in computer science, membership in a class or set is not a matter of degree. Either a number is even, or it is not. But this on-or-off, black-or- white, 0-or-1 approach falls apart when applied to many everyday classifications, like the set of beautiful women, the set of tall men or the set of very cold days...