Word: logician
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Though he never received a Ph.D. himself, Dreben taught in Harvard's philosophy department during its hey-day, when his colleagues included Theory of Justice author John Rawls and logician W.V. Quine...
Fred Hood '02 does an excellent job of playing off of Berenger's hysteria as Dudard, his forgivingly intellectual coworker. Other strong points are Botard, the hilarious proletarian nincompoop played by Danny Yavuzkurt '02 and Cary McClelland's '02 Logician who though sometimes a little overbearing holds up his end of the show...
...three people I ever showed them to who figured this out and saw the way to win was to make me choose first which one I'd roll." (For math buffs: the dice were nontransitive. One of the others who figured it out was the logician Saul Kripke...
Alas, it is true. James is a rare combination of amateur logician and sociologist, stylist, humorist and stern moralist. In fact, much of the joy of reading him comes from the extravagant spectacle of a first-rate mind wasting itself on baseball. Is baseball 75% pitching? No, it isn't, and James will show in a page or so that the proposition makes no more sense than saying "Philosophy is 75% God." Are the good teams the ones that bear down in the crucial final innings? No. The Cardinals and Blue Jays would still have won their divisions last year...
...nice logician's view of how to present a case," says Montgomery of the Government Department. "He knows what kind of evidence should be marshalled, and he has an instinct for a nicely paced argument...