So if I told you that I'd spent an evening at the Wellcome Collection in London a few weeks ago discussing dementia and emerged feeling excited, you might wonder about the soundness of my mind.
More recently, the Committee on Creative Writing has made creative writing a more active presence within the English Department. it is a criticism directed primarily not at the accuracy of my facts or the soundness of my opinions but at things more basic than these the relevance of my assumptions, the appropriateness of my method, the sufficiency of my notions of evidence, and so on.
While I still believed in the soundness of my motivations, his insistence got me to reflect on the unspoken paradoxes between a closed, formal education and its simultaneous attempt to be "open".
But if it were followed directly by a recommendation that all states of the world pool all their public resources for health, to allocate them in the most cost-effective way to maximize the health of humanity, that would – in my opinion – lack interpretative soundness.
Pang MY, Harris JE, Eng JJ.
But this fact has no bearing on the soundness (or lack thereof) of my argument.
"The more people, in my judgment, exaggerate a threat of safety and soundness, the more people conjure up the possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury, which I do not see," Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat, said then.
As he later wrote: "A conviction of the fundamental soundness of the idea took root in my mind". Such an insight, to be accepted, would require large amounts of supporting evidence.
I went on to work with disabled riders, and finally purchased, saddle-broke and brought along a talented young thoroughbred who had "never been on the track" (a big selling point with regard to future soundness and behavioral problems) in order to finance my graduate work in film.
