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• If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world.
  One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability....
• logical adj. [from the technical term `logical device', wherein a physical device is referred to by an arbitrary `logical' name] Having the role of.
  If a person (say, Les Earnest at SAIL) who had long held a certain post left and were replaced, the replacement would for a while be known as the `logical' Les Earnest....
• Our parents were of Midwestern stock and very strict.
  They didn't want us to grow up to be spoiled and rich....
• precedence lossage /pre's*-dens los'*j/ n. [C programmers] Coding error in an expression due to unexpected grouping of arithmetic or logical operators by the compiler.
  Used esp. of certain common coding errors in C due to the nonintuitively low precedence levels of &...
• Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue.
  There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . ....
• What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach?
  Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working....
• Our parents were of Midwestern stock and very strict.
  They didn't want us to grow up to be spoiled and rich....