But the Tories' so-called "jobs miracle" is one of their strongest suits: Miliband's strategy – to attack quality, rather than quantity – is the logical centre-left response.
Economists have typically described the thought processes of homo sapiens as more like that of Star Trek's Mr Spock strictly logical, centred on a clearly defined goal and free from the unsteady influences of emotion or irrationality than the uncertain, error-prone groping with which most of us are familiar.
DK Breaking in the centre looks logical and Black played 1...e5 immediately, transposing to Ronan's line after 2 cxd5 Nxc3 3 Rxc3 cxd5.
Nonetheless, the adjective logical lies at the centre of interest, disagreement, and confusion in 20th-century British and American philosophy.
"We want to make the city centre as logical and inviting as it can be," said David Cockcroft, assistant director for city centre development services.
The Italian medical faculties at Bologna and Padua were lively centres of logical and philosophical studies; for example, Peter of Abano, a professor of medicine at Padua who had been trained at Paris, pushed Aristotle's cosmology to the brink of determinism in human affairs and used his logic to suggest that Jesus' death was only apparent.
Unlike the Parisian arrondissements, which are numbered in a logical clockwise spiral from the centre, the remaining London postal districts follow no geographic logic but are dotted randomly within their sector according to the alphabetical order of sorting-office names.
Heading for the city centre, defying the logical instinct telling you to get home and lock the door against a frightening world, making the effort, running what is still potentially a risk, in a familiar world that has become suddenly unfamiliar – this, surely, is an individual act of courage.
In terms of simple squad balance, another centre-back was logical to provide the customary quartet for that key area.
Based on the IHE Cross-Enterprise-Communication concept (IHE-XDS family), which is the core of many regional and national eHealth concepts, there is already a logical approach for connecting imaging centres with imaging biobanks.
