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	Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asimov was by general consensus a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered to be one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime.
		Asimov was born around January 2, 1920 (his date of birth for official purposes—the precise date is not certain) in Petrovichi shtetl of Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia) to Anna Rachel Berman Asimov and Judah Asimov, a Jewish family of millers.
		Isaac Asimov was a humanist and a rationalist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Asimov (5667 words)

	Reason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Reason includes not only our capacity for logical inference, but also our ability to conduct inquiry, to solve problems, to evaluate, to criticize, to deliberate about how we should act, and to reach an understanding of ourselves, other people, and the world.
		In theology, reason, as distinguished from faith, is the human intelligence exercised upon religious truth whether by way of discovery or by way of explanation.
		The limits within which reason may be used have been laid down differently in different churches and periods of thought: on the whole, modern Christianity, especially in the Protestant churches, tends to allow to reason a wide field, reserving, however, as the sphere of faith the ultimate (supernatural) truths of theology.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/r/re/reason.html (490 words)

	Reason (Asimov)
		Reason (1942) is science-fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.
		Using this skill it decides that the humans that inhabit the station are unimportant, and that it serves a greater purpose (i.e.
		The humans initially attempt to reason with the robot until they decide that they can't win, and the robot can still perform its job well.
	www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Reason_(Asimov) (253 words)

	Isaac Asimov FAQ
		Asimov died on April 6, 1992 of heart and kidney failure, which were complications of the HIV infection he contracted from a transfusion of tainted blood during his December 1983 triple-bypass operation.
		Asimov discovered that he was acrophobic at the New York World's Fair in 1940, when he took his date and first love Irene on a roller coaster, expecting that it would cause her to cling to him in fear and give him a chance to kiss her.
		Asimov also edited or co-edited a large number of anthologies, and since his name was usually featured prominently on the cover, readers sometimes mistakenly associate his name with a story that appeared in an anthology that was in fact written by another author.
	www.asimovonline.com /asimov_FAQ.html (12121 words)

	Isaac Asimov, R.I.P.
		Asimov's problem with cryonics was not lack of access or money (his writing had made him rich), and certainly was not lack of brains or scienti- fic knowledge-- his problem lay elsewhere.
		Asimov's future worlds are either giant warrens of humanity (where overpopulation would make the idea of life exten- sion a joke), or else empty worlds where people live in such psychological isolation that living long seems a punishment.
		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.
	www.cryonet.org /cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=705 (1121 words)

	Reason - Gurupedia
		In philosophy, reason (from Latin ratio, by way of French raison) is the faculty by means of which or the process through which human beings perform thought, especially abstract thought.
		Reason includes not only our capacity for logical inference, but also our ability to conduct inquiry, to solve problems, to evaluate, to criticize, to deliberate about how we should act, and to reach an understanding of ourselves, other people, and the world.
		Protestant churches, tends to allow to reason a wide field, reserving, however, as the sphere of faith the ultimate (supernatural) truths of theology.
	www.gurupedia.com /r/re/reason.htm (467 words)

	Welcome to Asimov Online
		Beyond the world of science fiction, Asimov was also forced to read non-fiction titles since the library required that of the two books he checked out, one had to be non-fiction.
		Nevertheless, Asimov was a remarkable student, receiving A's in many classes and graduating at the early age of fifteen.
		Asimov then remained with Jeppson for whom he would spend the remainder of his life with.
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	Reason (Asimov) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reason (1942) is science-fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.
		Using these abilities, it decides that space, stars and the planets beyond the station don't really exist; that the humans that inhabit the station are unimportant, short-lived and expendable, and that it serves a greater purpose (i.e.
		The humans initially attempt to reason with the robot, until they realise that they can't win, and the robot can still perform its job well.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reason_(Asimov) (273 words)

	Roger Clarke's Asimov's Laws of Robotics
		Asimov was not the first to conceive of well-engineered, non-threatening robots, but he pursued the theme with such enormous imagination and persistence that most of the ideas that have emerged in this branch of science fiction are identifiable with his stories.
		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 suggested one class of deadlock that would not occur: If in a given situation a robot knew that it was powerless to prevent harm to a human, then the first law would be inoperative; the third law would become relevant, and it would not self- immolate in a vain attempt to save the human.
	www.anu.edu.au /people/Roger.Clarke/SOS/Asimov.html (13168 words)

	Isaac Asimov - How I, Robot gets the science-fiction grandmaster wrong. By Chris Suellentrop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The thread that connected this prodigious output was Asimov's role as a teacher, "the greatest explainer of the age," as Carl Sagan called him.
		Asimov's faith in the rule of robots was genuine and based on his faith in the rule of reason.
		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.
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	A Legend That Will Live on Forever
		J eppson was a major influence on Asimov's writings because she provided the support that Asimov needed after his divorce and through the rest of his life.
		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.
		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.
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	USS Asimov NCC-1647: Welcome
		Welcome to the USS Asimov, a chapter of STARFLEET - The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc. We are a small group of friends who share the love of science fiction and get together to have fun.
		As for the reason that we are supposed to be folding, that we are not doing anything, I would like to point out that while we may not have a lot listed on our activities page we do have quite a few impromptu get togethers.
		On behalf of the crew of the USS Asimov we wish everyone a happy and joyous new year.
	www.ussasimov.org (687 words)

	Encyclopedia: Reason (Asimov)
		Isaac Asimovs Robot Series is a series of books by Isaac Asimov, both collections of short stories and novels.
		Isaac Asimov The Complete Robot is a collection of science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov written between 1940 and 1976, which were previously collected in books I, Robot, The Rest of the Robots, and other anthologies.
		First Law is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, first published in 1956 in Fantastic Universe Science Fiction magazine and later collected in The Rest of the Robots and The Complete Robot.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Reason-(Asimov) (1023 words)

	Reason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The official reason given Wednesday for cable mogul John Malone's departure from the board of Cablevision Systems Corp. was that he could avoid any perception of conflict of interest.
		Annika Sorenstam may quail at the thought of public speaking, but the Swedish superstar sees no reason to be shy about her goal of completing one of the grails of golf: a calendar-year Grand Slam.
		DESPITE the headlines, there is no reason for the public to panic over malaria because incidents of the disease have not reached epidemic proportions.
	www.infothis.com /find/Reason (807 words)

	Isaac Asimov's Robot Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Most of Asimov's robot short stories are set in the first age of positronic robotics and space exploration.
		The most unique feature of Asimov's robots are the Three Laws of Robotics, hardwired in the robots' positronic brains, which all robots in his fiction must obey, and which ensure that robots don't turn against their creators.
		Rather than precursors of robots that may be made as derivatives of computers, Asimov's robots are actually what in philosophy are called Homunculushomunculi/, thought experiments on what sort of being would result from considering a human being and removing one or more of these characteristics.
	www.infothis.com /find/Isaac_Asimov's_Robot_Series (1019 words)

	Asimov's Reason - Cutie as a Metaphor of the Mind in Asimov's Reason
		Reason and logic have a lucid quality that is reassuring to human interaction.
		Both these facets are shown by the main character, "Cutie," in Asimov's "Reason." This thought-provoking story uses Cutie, a robot, as a metaphor of the human mind, and on a larger scale, humanity itself.
		In "Reason," Asimov cleverly uses a robot as an analogy of the human mind.
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	Three Laws of Robotics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Asimov attributes the Three Laws to John W. Campbell from a conversation made on December 23, 1940.
		Asimov wrote two stories without the Three Laws mentioned explicitly ("Robbie[?]" and "Reason[?]"), however Asimov assumed that robots would have certain inherent safeguards.
		The robots in Asimov's stories are incapable of knowingly violating the Three Laws, but there isn'thing to stop any robot in other stories or in the real world from being constructed without them.
	www.city-search.org /th/three-laws-of-robotics.html (1263 words)

	" On Books" By Norman Spinrad
		Asimov's was also the 2001 recipient of the Locus Award for Best Magazine.
		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.
		Which is that this is the sort of novel that is now being squeezed from commercial viability in the so-called "major" SF lines and into small press publication, a process more than half completed, and later, via the inevitable discouragement of being able to approach anything like its natural audience, into literary extinction.
	www.asimovs.com /_issue_0505/onbooks.shtml (5457 words)

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		inductive reasoning, meaning "from the particular to the general".
		The limits within which reason may be used have been laid down differently in different churches and periods of thought: on the whole, modern Christianity, especially in the
		Protestant churches, tends to allow to reason a wide field, reserving, however, as the sphere of faith the ultimate (supernatural) truths of theology.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Reason (463 words)

	I, Robot (2004)
		Asimov’s stories read less well today — the characterization is wooden and often quite sexist — yet the one thing that does stand through is the beauty of ideas.
		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.
		Asimov is also frequently misidentified as having written the classic sf film Fantastic Voyage (1966) or that the film is based on his book (even the Internet Movie Database repeats this misnomer), when in fact all that he wrote was the novelization of the film.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/irobot.htm (1817 words)

	Reason (Asimov) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Reason (1942) is (Click link for more info and facts about science-fiction) science-fiction (A prose narrative shorter than a novel) short story by (United States writer (born in Russia) noted for his science fiction (1920-1992)) Isaac Asimov.
		The (A mechanism that can move automatically) robot that controls the energy beams has been given a unique ability: reasoning.
		In 1967 this short story was adapted into an episode of British television series (Click link for more info and facts about Out of the Unknown) Out of the Unknown entitled "The Prophet".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/re/reason_(asimov)1.htm (365 words)

	Guide to The Road to Science Fiction #3: From Heinlein to Here - Reason
		Within these stories, discover the nature of intelligence, the extremes of reason as an operating system, and the internal conflicts experienced in situations requiring emotional distance.
		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.
		A claim to identity is never certain, but reason lies in the background as a hopeful saviour.
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	The SF Site: A Brief History of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
		In mid-1982 Sheila Williams was hired as Editorial Assistant (soon to be Managing Editor, and finally Executive Editor) and she has remained with the magazine ever since, the most stable fixture on the masthead for the past 15 years.
		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).
		By the close of the 80s, Asimov's was simply the place to be for short science fiction and fantasy.
	www.sfsite.com /columns/asimov70.htm (1841 words)

	For Valpolicella, a newfound stature
		One reason Asimov liked them, he said, was because "they were not tricked up, like so many American wines are." The winemakers, he added, "let these wines be themselves."
		Horvath noted the two styles of Valpolicella - the lighter ones and those with "the guts of the big Amarone style" - and he added that neither one was wrong nor right.
		Asimov noted the Amarone style and, with Horvath, praised its long finish.
	www.azcentral.com /home/wine/articles/0724valpolicella24.html (892 words)

	Reason (Asimov) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Using this skill it decides that the humans that inhabit the station are unimportant, andthat it serves a greater purpose (i.e.
		The humans initially attempt to reason with therobot until they decide that they can't win, and the robot can still perform its job well.
		The only difference is that, as far asit is concerned, it doesn't do it for the benefit of the humans, but for its deity.
	www.therfcc.org /reason-asimov--49088.html (219 words)

	Asimov Essays about himself
		Subject: the arrival of the Asimov family at Ellis Island in 1923
		Subject: the reason Asimov writes is because he likes to
		Subject: Asimov's role as unofficial spokeman for the SF field
	www.asimovonline.com /oldsite/Essays/autobiographic.html (953 words)

	reason - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Example: "The reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly"
		Phrases that include reason: age of reason, with reason, within reason, for some reason, reason age of, more...
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	Meatball Wiki: PrincipleOfSufficientReason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Determinism runs Sufficient Reason the other way round: not only does everything that happens, happen for a reason, but inescapably, since the reason necessitates the action.
		It is argued that neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory is a sufficient reason to explain highly-organised carbon-based life forms on planet Earth given a primordial soup.
		The fascination with determinism returned in force with science fiction, as soon as it tried to be more than 'genre fiction': space opera with a 'grand narrative' behind it.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?PrincipleOfSufficientReason (684 words)

	I, Consumer \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The reason i know this is from a movie has nothing to do with the site, it runs too slow on my crappy laptop, but from the fact that i live at imdb and in looking up the cast of Firefly i discovered that one of them was working on this.
		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.
		Data's brain being positronic was an homage to Asimov.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/30874 (2048 words)

	Decade: the 1940s
		This was my first introduction to Asimov, and I spent the next couple of years devouring everything I could lay my hands on by him.
		The humans one the ship are rendered superfluous to the work of the station, and at first are most concerned at the robots bizarre (mis)beliefs.
		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!
	www.bestsf.net /reviews/decade40s.html (1056 words)

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