Single Idea 6858

[catalogued under 5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic]

Full Idea

As soon as I started learning formal logic, that struck me as exactly the language that I wanted to think in.

Gist of Idea

Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in

Source

Timothy Williamson (Interview with Baggini and Stangroom [2001])

Book Reference

Baggini,J/Stangroom,J: 'New British Philosophy' [Routledge 2002], p.150


A Reaction

It takes all sorts… It is interesting that formal logic might be seen as having the capacity to live up to such an aspiration. I don't think the dream of an ideal formal language is dead, though it will never encompass all of reality. Poetic truth.

Related Idea

Idea 22436 Logicians don't paraphrase logic into language, because they think in the symbolic language [Quine]