We tend to use irrational guidelines such as perceived fairness and loss aversion, which are based on emotions, attitudes and memories, not logic.
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It is simply not fruitful to attempt to debate business logic with those who do not recognize logic to begin with.
Paying for the state bailout with new taxes on business is not proper logic.
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Yet people do stupid things, and highly-indebted people do not follow the logic of economics textbooks.
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The members of this movement do not accept the logic of compromise, no matter how sweet the terms.
Now, "there's not a clear logic or rationale for her candidacy, " Harris says.
So, this is not in fact the logic behind viewing interest rates as excessively high.
That logic has not been changed by the mismanagement of Rover since the takeover.
But, oddly, this logic does not seem to apply to the bodies charged with regulating the regulations.
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The logic of not raising taxes in a recession seems to have sunk in even among progressives.
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That logic applies not just to the religious right but, increasingly, to other sections of the Republican Party.
If our logic is not that high consumer spending has to return to buoy the economy what is it?
Such an assertion does not stand up to logic for two critical reasons.
In terms of dramatic logic, not far: Freddie has met his antithesis, the servant has fused with the master, and the synthesis is complete.
Logic would dictate that, but logic is not the FASB's motivator.
Unfortunately, logic does not always operate when the topic is guns.
By the same logic, not all degree programs are created equal.
But logic does not drive constitutions, not in Europe anyway.
But peace-process logic does not allow for such nullification.
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However, such logic will not stop some from continuing to argue that if an American wants to drink paint and suffer the consequences, such behavior is both their prerogative and their right in a free country.
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In computing, the driver that determines how the engine is used is the character and elegance of the algorithms, not only the programming logic itself, but also the skill in creating that logic in the first place.
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And if it did not have a name, we said, paraphrasing a proposition in logic, then it could not be treated.
This is not an argument based on logic, science or philosophy, but an aesthetic one.
These errors are often caused by emotional and psychological biases not based on objectivity or logic.
So then would you concede that the logic of it not getting done is simply because of politics?
Whether or not there's consistent logic behind it, the shift in blame from customs to part suppliers only reinforces doubts about the company's prospects.
The logic above does not prove an exact job match at all times resulting from exports and imports, but it does indicate an approximate match.
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Lula's foreign policy logic is embedded not just on the fact that Brazil is now a great country and therefore it demands a place in the world.
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