Arthur H. Robinson (1915–2004) American geographer
Source: The Look of Maps (1952), p. 70
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Arthur H. Robinson (1915–2004) American geographer
Source: The Look of Maps (1952), p. 70
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Vol. IV, par. 5
Collected Papers (1931-1958)
Context: The ordinary logic has a great deal to say about genera and species, or in our nineteeth century dialect, about classes. Now a class is a set of objects comprising all that stand to one another in a special relation of similarity. But where ordinary logic talks of classes the logic of relatives talks of systems. A system is a set of objects comprising all that stands to one another in a group of connected relations. Induction according to ordinary logic rises from the contemplation of a sample of a class to that of a whole class; but according to the logic of relatives it rises from the comtemplation of a fragment of a system to the envisagement of the complete system.
Alfredo Rocco (1875–1935) Italian politician and jurist
The end is the same for both, namely, the welfare of the individual members of society. The difference lies in the fact that liberalism would be guided to its goal by liberty, whereas socialism strives to attain it by the collective organization of production.
Source: The Political Doctrine of Fascism (1925), pp. 108-109
Gregory Scott Paul (1954) U.S. researcher, author, paleontologist, and illustrator
Gregory S. Paul (1988) Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, Simon and Schuster, p. 22
Predatory Dinosaurs of the World
Tristan Tzara (1896–1963) Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist
1910s, Dada Manifesto', 1918
Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921–2017) Electrical engineer and computer scientist
Zadeh (1975) "Fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning". Synthese 30: p. 407
1970s
“everything is relative. you, for instance, are my relative.”
P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994) Colombian writer and philosopher
Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)
“There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.”
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton (1959)
Context: There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics. The former is supple and lifelike, it follows our experience. The latter is abstract and rigid, more ideal. The latter is perfectly necessary, perfectly reliable: the former is only sometimes reliable and hardly ever systematic. But the logic of mathematics achieves necessity at the expense of living truth, it is less real than the other, although more certain. It achieves certainty by a flight from the concrete into abstraction. Doubtless, to an idealist, this would seem to be a more perfect reality. I am not an idealist. The logic of the poet — that is, the logic of language or the experience itself — develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.
“One cannot think of the Absolute without the Relative, or of the Relative without the Absolute.”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 134
Context: Brahman and Śakti are identical. If you accept the one, you must accept the other. It is like fire and its power to burn. If you see the fire, you must recognize its power to burn also. You cannot think of fire without its power to burn, nor can you think of the power to burn without fire. You cannot conceive of the sun's rays without the sun, nor can you conceive of the sun without its rays. You cannot think of the milk without the whiteness, and again, you cannot think of the whiteness without the milk. Thus one cannot think of Brahman without Śakti, or of Śakti without Brahman. One cannot think of the Absolute without the Relative, or of the Relative without the Absolute.