“Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!”
Latin for All Occasions (1990)
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American writer, co-founder and editor of National Lampoon 1945Related quotes
Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Variant translation: Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. The result of philosophy is not a number of "philosophical propositions." but to make propositions clear.
Original German: Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken. Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Tätigkeit. Ein philosophisches Werk besteht wesentlich aus Erläuterungen. Das Resultat der Philosophie sind nicht „philosophische Sätze“, sondern das Klarwerden von Sätzen. Die Philosophie soll die Gedanken, die sonst, gleichsam, trübe und verschwommen sind, klar machen und scharf abgrenzen.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Context: Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. (4.112)
“Your logic may be good,
But dialectics never saved a soul.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Source: Savonarola (1881), Frà Domenico in Act II, sc. ix; p. 197.
Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) American television screenwriter and producer
As quoted in Can A Smart Person Believe in God? (2004) by Michael Guillen, Ch. 7 : Hope Springs Eternal, p. 90
Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) German philosopher
Foreword
Logical Syntax of Language, 1934/1937
“The Stoics made three divisions of philosophy, Physic, Ethic, and Logic.”
George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
The Philosophy of Antoninus
Context: The Stoics made three divisions of philosophy, Physic, Ethic, and Logic.... It appears, however, that this division was made before Zeno's time and acknowledged by Plato.... Logic is not synonymous with our term Logic in the narrower sense of that word.
“Adolf Hitler took Darwin's evolutionary philosophy to its logical conclusions.”
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition (2009)
Frank Honywill George (1921–1997) British psychologist
Source: The Brain As A Computer (1962), p.42 as cited in: Sica Pettigiani (1996) La comunicazione interumana. p.48