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I can dismiss your hard logic, but not how you feel.
The cold, hard logic of balancing a budget (budgets are never balanced) takes place in an emotional economy.
At any rate, I overlooked the cold hard logic of my friend Al Campanis when he was general manager of the Dodgers.
You find it nostalgically glamorised in westerns and Coen brothers films – rough justice, primordial morality, the cold hard logic of the gun.
More original and in line with his distinctive technique of using hard logic to crack problems in metaphysics and ethics was his paper Ascriptivism (1960).
The hard logic implements exactly the specification of a feature, while the soft logic deals with the adaptation aspects of a feature, i.e. resolving interaction problems and making features work together.
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The puzzle was nicknamed the hardest logic puzle ever by the logician George Boolos - who credited Raymond Smullyan as its originator.
This is just the cold, hard financial logic that Spain's biggest lender always adopts when dealing with the bond markets.
The intuitive reason that extreme, remote risk should be more highly priced than normal everyday risk was "a happy agreement between human psychological perception and hard mathematical logic".
You can point out, as the commentator Philip Stephens did in the FT the other day, that there is hard political logic in having a grey leader in an electorate that is increasingly grey too.
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