Word: logician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this very special application of an international language, Bar-Hillel admits he would rather use Esperanto, which has an even simpler syntax than Interlingua and is thus "closer to the heart of the logician." Its superficial construction, however, considerably weakens Esperanto's position, since it is not the type of language which many people could be persuaded to learn. Most educated people would on the other hand have an immediate common meeting ground in Interlingua, provided they had some knowledge of a western language. Bar-Hillel's hobby is international language, he admits his views are highly subjective; he nevertheless...
...recent years Philosopher Bertrand Russell has taken to fiction, but fiction has not yet taken to Philosopher Russell. The reason is that when logicians with a sense of humor start toying with storytelling, their mighty brains behave like dancing elephants playing dancing mice. The fiction they write is more sophisticated than nursery rhymes but every bit as childish: only once in a blue moon does a logician like Lewis Carroll come along and succeed in transforming the kindergarten into Wonderland...
...Logician. In Lexington, Ky., asked in court how he came to crash into another car, Isaak Jones, 27, replied thoughtfully: "I probably got too close...
This Frenchman, who has so much order in his mind and so little in his acts, this logician who doubts everything . . . -Charles de Gaulle...
...University awarded him an honorary degree of Doctor of Science in 1939, with the citation: "An experimentalist who transforms stubborn matter by high pressure; a logician who alters physical theory by acute analysis...