Word: logician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simultaneous dishwasher, apartment handyman and hospital orderly frantically adds another occupation to his schedule: logician. His syllogism is primer-simple, though specious: 1) Puerto Ricans grow up to be busboys or elevator men; 2) Cuban refugees are hailed as heroes; 3) a Puerto Rican who passes as Cuban will be hailed as a hero. Turning theory into practice, he trains the kids to navigate an outboard motorboat, drills them on Cuban geography and orders them to speak solamente en espanol. Then he busses them down to Miami and turns them loose on the outgoing tide. "Better to drown...
...some. Russell always to me was too much of a logician on this. His interest in language has been a logician's interest. That again is another queer thing. Mathematics and logics lead people away from the actualities into, well, surprising generalities...
This is a book for the tired scientist, mathematician or logician. But the word games that Dmitri Borgmann has collected for his trip into the secret world beyond language also can be played by the ordinary reader, particularly if he is a genius...
...Earl Russell, now 94, presents a psychological conundrum of a similar order. Renowned mathematician, logician, philosopher and Nobel prizewinner, he writes English with all the precision and lucidity of which the language is capable. Yet for all its clarity and wit, the first volume, instantly acclaimed in England as a classic, leaves unresolved problems of character. To some, he is a crypto-mystic, to others, a heartless brain. Most recently he has become an excessively emotional organizer of peace marches who mouths anti-American propaganda drivel...
...occasionally criticized, of course, on matters of style and policy. Monro's habit of thinking out loud often gave his conversation the appearance of false starts and long windedness. He is not a scholar or logician. His style is to punch ideas around, not cut them apart. He was often his most severe critic, admitting mistakes readily--as, for example, on his decision to release class ranks to draft boards without consulting students. But he was not often wrong, and he won the respect of Faculty as well as students...