Logic Convention

Famous quotes containing the words logic and/or convention:

“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)