Points Penalty Meant

Famous quotes containing the words points, penalty and/or meant:

    The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.
    Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    That’s the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness—someone else always suffers for them.
    Alfred Sutro (1863–1933)

    When an image is said to be singular, it is meant that it is absolutely determinate in all respects. Every possible character, or the negative thereof, must be true of such an image.
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)