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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 Ref
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]
| 6858 | Formal logic struck me as exactly the language I wanted to think in [Williamson] |
| 6859 | Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson] |
| 6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |
| 6861 | What sort of logic is needed for vague concepts, and what sort of concept of truth? [Williamson] |
| 6862 | Fuzzy logic uses a continuum of truth, but it implies contradictions [Williamson] |
| 6863 | Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge [Williamson] |