And yet there's still what they call a row on about whether certain people — BBC presenters, mainly — were putting on the poppies too early, which, in some contorted-logic way, was alleged to be disrespectful to veterans.
It's almost a post-logic way of understanding the world.
An alternative rationale is imposed to fashion a dissonant logic, another way of making sense.
It is not an ideology, but a political logic – a way of thinking about politics.
Jamison is not blind to the ideological implications of the twelve-step logic, the way that it forces everyone to read from the same script.
But Big Data, most profoundly, is an operational logic — a way to see the world in which every conceivable piece of information, no matter how banal or private, is a bit that can be part of some giant corpus of data.
A free-market logic that, way back in the 1870s, removed economics from a satisfactory social location and into the arena of abstract calculus now dominates the texture of the party.
Think of the logic this way: A charitable gift does not reduce income, so it should not be deducted from a tax on income, but it does reduce a bequest and the estate tax should apply to bequests.
By Bloomberg's upbeat logic, the way the city has come through its difficulties more than justifies his decisions as mayor and, in a broader sense, his whole approach.
Basil Rifkind, who oversaw the relevant trials for the N.I.H., described their logic this way: they had failed to demonstrate at great expense that eating less fat had any health benefits.
