Logically Proper Names

Famous quotes containing the words logically, proper and/or names:

“The concept of a person is logically prior to that of an individual consciousness. The concept of a person is not to be analysed as that of an animated body or an embodied anima.”
—Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)

“The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)