Clarence Lewis

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    The intension of a proposition comprises whatever the proposition entails: and it includes nothing else.... The connotation or intension of a function comprises all that attribution of this predicate to anything entails as also predicable to that thing.
    Clarence Lewis (1883–1964)

    Roll forth, my song, like the rushing river,
    That sweeps along to the mighty sea;
    —James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849)

    Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
    —Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)