Logic Chases Truth Up The Tree Of

The Word 'definition' Has Come To Have A Dangerously Reassuring Sound, Owing No Doubt To Its Frequent Occurrence In Logical And Mathematical Writings.

The Three Main Medieval Points Of View Regarding Universals Are Designated By Historians As Realism, Conceptualism, And Nominalism. Essentially These Same Three Doctrines Reappear In Twentieth-century Surveys Of The Philosophy Of Mathematics Under The New Names Logicism, Intuitionism, And Formalism.

We Can Applaud The State Lottery As A Public Subsidy Of Intelligence, For It Yields Public Income That Is Calculated To Lighten The Tax Burden Of Us Prudent Abstainers At The Expense Of The Benighted Masses Of Wishful Thinkers.

Unlike Descartes, We Own And Use Our Beliefs Of The Moment, Even In The Midst Of Philosophizing, Until By What Is Vaguely Called Scientific Method We Change Them Here And There For The Better. Within Our Own Total Evolving Doctrine, We Can Judge Truth As Earnestly And Absolutely As Can Be, Subject To Correction, But That Goes Without Saying.

English General And Singular Terms, Identity, Quantification, And The Whole Bag Of Ontological Tricks May Be Correlated With Elements Of The Native Language In Any Of Various Mutually Incompatible Ways, Each Compatible With All Possible Linguistic Data, And None Preferable To Another Save As Favored By A Rationalization Of The Native Language That Is Simple And Natural To Us.