Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
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The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.Willard Van Orman Quine
If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.
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For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions....
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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To be is to be the value of a variable.
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We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
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Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.
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The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.
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