Simple Propositions

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or propositions:

    “Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month’s labor in the farmer’s almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)