Simple Propositions

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or propositions:

“A more simple and natural man it would be hard to find. Vice and disease, which cast such a sombre moral hue over the world, seemed to have hardly any existence for him.”
—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)