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| | Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Asimov said that of all his writings, he was most proud of the middle section of The Gods Themselves. | | | Asimov was a long-time member of Mensa, albeit reluctantly — he described them as "intellectually combative." The asteroid 5020 Asimov is named in his honor. | | | These columns, periodically collected into books by his principal publisher, Doubleday, helped make Asimov's reputation as a "Great Explainer" of science and were referred to by him as his only pop-science writing in which he never had to assume complete ignorance of the subjects at hand on the part of his readers. |
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| | Reason - encyclopedia article about Reason. |
| | The adjective for reason or "rationality In philosophy, the word rationality has been used to describe numerous religious and philosophical theories, especially those concerned with truth, reason, and knowledge. | | | Continental rationalism is a school in which rationality and reason are the key methods by which we obtain knowledge, in opposition to empiricism which states that knowledge is obtained primarily via the senses. | | | This is the sense in which Cardinal Bellarmine used the word when he warned Galileo away from treating the motion of the Earth as a reality. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/reason
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| | Isaac Asimov, R.I.P. |
| | There is considerable irony here, for Asimov himself died doing exactly what everyone around him was doing in the way of dealing with death, as much caught up in the social norms of his own culture as any of the various "enforcers of the status quo" in one of his stories. | | | For those of you who don't know him, Isaac Asimov is (was) the premier science writer of this century. | | | Isaac Asimov, R.I.P. X-Message-Number: 705 Date: 07 Apr 92 14:35:56 EDT From: "Steven B. Harris" < > Subject: Isaac Asimov, R.I.P. Isaac Asimov, R.I.P. It was with sadness that I heard about the passing of Isaac Asimov today. |
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| | A Legend That Will Live on Forever |
| | There were many small reasons that the books were written, but the main reason that Asimov wrote these books was to give the world a message, hoping that the people reading h is works will be smart enough to understand what the meanings were. | | | The reasoning behind choosing a series of novels as a major work instead of just choosing one novel to be a major work is because the full impact of the series is not experienced if all of the books are not read and taken as one work. | | | Asimov was convinced that she never truly loved him. |
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| | Isaac Asimov - How I, Robot gets the science-fiction grandmaster wrong. By Chris Suellentrop |
| | But Asimov probably would have known why Asahara failed to understand his books—just as he surely grasped why it proved impossible for him, despite his best efforts, to stomp out the literary archetype of the evil robot run amok. | | | Even in his science fiction, the work for which he will be most remembered, Asimov was as much an explainer as a storyteller, an advocate for science and reason over mysticism. | | | Asimov's novel I, Robot—which "suggested" the new movie of the same name—is basically an evangelical work, an argument against man's superstitious fear of machines. |
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http://slate.msn.com/id/2103979
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| | Roger Clarke's Asimov's Laws of Robotics |
| | Asimov investigated this in an early short story and later in a novel: A mind-reading robot interprets the first law as requiring him to give people not the correct answers to their questions but the answers that he knows they want to hear 14,16,17. | | | Asimov was among the most prolific of authors, publishing hundreds of books on various subjects and dozens of short stories. | | | This is reminiscent of an Asimov story in which mankind is an experimental laboratory for higher beings5 and Adams' altogether more flippant Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which the Earth is revealed as a large experiment in which humans are being used as laboratory animals by, of all things, white mice. |
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http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/SOS/Asimov.html
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| | I, Robot (2004) |
| | Asimov was a prodigious writer and produced more than 400 books in his lifetime. | | | Asimov was a ferocious intellect and his books and stories are always ones of ideas — his robot stories, more than anything, play like detective stories in problem-solving logic. | | | The majority of these were not science-fiction but in fact general knowledge books on almost any subject under the sun that Asimov chose to write about from science, maths, history and the origins of words, to annotated versions of the classics, Bible stories and even collections of dirty limericks. |
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| | Three Laws of Robotics |
| | Asimov wrote two stories without the Three Laws mentioned explicitly ("Robbie[?]" and "Reason[?]"), however Asimov assumed that robots would have certain inherent safeguards. | | | This is strikingly opposite to the nature of Asimov's robots. | | | According to the introduction of the first book, these were devised by the author in discussion with Asimov himself. |
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| | Isaac Asimov's Robot Series |
| | Another short story (found in ''The Early Asimov'' anthology), "Mother Earth (Asimov)Mother Earth/", is set about a thousand years before the robot novels, when the Spacer worlds chose to become separated from Earth. | | | There is also another set of novels by various authors (Isaac Asimov's Robots series/Robot City series/Robots and Aliens series/Robots in Time series) loosely connected to the Robots Series, but they contain many inconsistencies with Asimov's books, and are not generally considered canon (fiction)canon/. | | | ''Isaac Asimov's Robot Series'' is a series of books by Isaac Asimov, both collections of short stories and novels. |
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| | reason - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include reason: age of reason, with reason, within reason, for some reason, reason age of, more... | | | Words similar to reason: cause, argue, conclude, ground, grounds, intellect, rationality, reasonableness, reasoned, reasoner, reasoning, understanding, basis, explanation, justification, logic, reason out, sake, sanity, sense, more... | | | Example: "We are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" |
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| | SF Citations for OED |
| | Mike Christie submitted a 1941 cite from Isaac Asimov's 'Reason'. |
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| | Reason (Asimov) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Reason (1942) is science-fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. | | | QT1 concludes that it must become the Prophet of the Master and serve only the Master. | | | The only difference is that, as far as it is concerned, it doesn't do it for the benefit of the humans, but for its deity. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_(Asimov)
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| | A Guide to Isaac Asimov's Essays |
| | Though perhaps best known throughout the world for his science fiction, Isaac Asimov was also regarded as one of the great explainers of science. | | | Asimov would like to view a lunar eclipse from the Moon | | | the struggle of reason against irrationality and blind faith |
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| | I, Consumer MetaFilter |
| | This is what makes living among soldiers tolerable; we can be reasonably sure that they won't be made by their superiors to rape and pillage the nearest towns. | | | I thought "bicentennial Man" was supposed to have been rooted in Asimov's robot books. | | | I thought "Bicentennial Man" was supposed to have been rooted in Asimov's robot books. |
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| | The SF Site: A Brief History of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine |
| | Other great pieces included Isaac Asimov's first new robot story in over a decade, "Robot Dreams" (mid-December 1986); "Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy (1987 Nebula); "Flowers of Edo" by Bruce Sterling (May 1987); and the terrific adventure tale "Gilgamesh in the Outback" by Robert Silverberg (July 1986 issue, a 1987 Hugo Award winner). | | | Other stories which I remember clearly from the period are the brilliant "Dori Bangs" by Bruce Sterling (1989), a daring 'what if' scenario in classic SF fashion... | | | And while you rarely praised a Ferdinand Feghoot story (at least in public), you almost always read it first. |
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| | Decade: the 1940s |
| | A pleasent enough story, although Asimov ignores his own Three Laws at the point where the spacers are suffering at the hand of the robot! | | | This robot story is a good representative of Asimov's work. | | | I still have fond memories of buying a copy of 'The Martian Way' collection and taking it home and reading in virtually one sitting. |
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| | Welcome to Asimov Online |
| | Asimov enjoyed reading so much that he even tried to copy his favorite books by hand. | | | However, Isaac's father thought otherwise and wanted him to become a doctor. | | | This spurred Asimov's desire to write his own novels. |
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| | Future History |
| | The Naken Sun, Isaac Asimov, Astounding Science Fiction, Vol. | | | Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov, Gnome Press, 1953, combined version of "Now You See It" and. |
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| | Asimov Essays about himself |
| | Subject: the reason Asimov writes is because he likes to | | | Subject: a description of and the reasons for the "Isaac's Universe" series | | | Subject: the story behind the writing of Fantastic Voyage II First Published In: May-88, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine |
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| | Meatball Wiki: PrincipleOfSufficientReason |
| | Leibniz handles contingency as based in infinitary reasons to which God has access. | | | The place of the Laws of Thought hasn't really been filled since they lost their status (certainly for sufficient reasons, but still...). | | | This is a "law" associated with the rationalist philosopher WikiPedia:GottfriedLeibniz. |
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| | " On Books" By Norman Spinrad |
| | Questions regarding subscriptions should be sent to our subscription address. | | | What greater praise for a writer than that a hardened freebie hound would actually pay money to read his latest? | | | Now readers of this magazine will know that Paul is an avid champion of the small press, and we can hope against cynical reason that this is a path he has chosen out of idealistic monkish dedication to the cause rather than major publishing obtuseness. |
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| | Asimov's Reason - Cutie as a Metaphor of the Mind in Asimov's Reason |
| | Using one's reason to the highest ability is considered to be a virtue in our society. | | | Asimov's Reason - Cutie as a Metaphor of the Mind in Asimov's Reason | | | Closer analysis of "Reason" will allow an indepth understanding of :- (1) how the reasoning process is used to formulate a belief by Cutie, (2) how the human mind uses reason to deal with that which is unknown to humanity. |
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| | I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - Book |
| | Each one is superb writing and the book as a whole (along with Foundation and Pebble in the Sky) demonstrates the reason Isaac Asimov became such a success. | | | I, Robot was one of Asimov's first works and, while some of his later books were better, I, Robot is simply a classic of pure sci-fi and shaped the worldwide view of robots. | | | The book is rather short, and should probably have been longer. |
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| | meine Buchsammlung my bookcollection |
| | Gulliverzone Moonseed Bear,Greg Blood Musik Foundation and Chaos Petra Tangents Benford,Gregory tides of light Timescape Foundation's Fear Benford,Gregory + Arthur C. Clarke beyond the fall of night Beruft,Krzysztof Die Algen Bethke,Bruce Asimov's Robot City 11: maverik Blish,James der Gewissensfall Zeit der Vögel Cities in flight Bond,Nelson Lancelot Biggs Weltraumfahrten# | | | Dreamcastle Bradbury,Ray die Marschroniken Fahrenheit 451 Brin,David otherness the crystal Spheres Sundiver Startide rising The Uplift War brightness reef infinity's shore heavens's reach Foundations Triumph Brin,David + Gregory Benford heart of the comet | | | Krauss,Lawrence M. the Physics of Star Trek Kube-Mc Dowell,Michael P. Asimov's Robot City 01: die Odyssee star wars : before the Storm star wars : Shield of Lies star wars : tyrant's test |
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| | Robotics: Timeline: 1934-1949 |
| | Isaac Asimov: 'Reason' (story): robot becomes curious about own existence | | | First appearance of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics: | | | Isaac Asimov: 'Robbie' (story): amiable robot saves child's life |
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| | Guide to The Road to Science Fiction #3: From Heinlein to Here - Reason |
| | The inhabitants of Wesker's World rely on logic and reason to explain their universe. | | | Through reason QT-1 (Cutie) comes to a conclusion that the humans cannot affirm but whose logic they cannot completely deny. | | | Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics come into play as Vandaleur and android jaunt across space to escape crimes of the laws of robotics, humanity, and/or both. |
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| | Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| | I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. | | | Because, Breathe, Didn, Die, Reason, Same, Would, Write | | | Because, Breathe, Die, For, I, If, Reason, Same, T, The, Would, Write |
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| | Melisa Michaels: Bibliography |
| | Melisa Michaels is the author of the science fiction novels Skirmish, First Battle, Last War, Pirate Prince, Floater Factor, and Far Harbor, the fantasy novels Cold Iron and Sister to the Rain, and the mystery novel Through the Eyes of the Dead. | | | "In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See" Asimov's (January 1979), Asimov's Science Fiction Anthology (Fall-Winter 1979), Isaac Asimov's Marvels of Science Fiction (1979), Terry Carr's Best of the Year, Number 9 (1980) | | | "Painted Houses", a short story in SFF Net's The Age of Reason, edited by Kurt Roth, August 1999 |
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