Propositions

Famous quotes containing the word propositions:

    In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary
    philosophers would properly count as ‘empirical’ can be necessary and be known to be such.
    Saul Kripke (b. 1940)

    The whole race is a poet that writes down
    The eccentric propositions of its fate.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    We want in every man a long logic; we cannot pardon the absence of it, but it must not be spoken. Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions and have a separate value, it is worthless.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)