6 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
21597 | Logical connectives have the highest precision, yet are infected by the vagueness of true and false [Russell, by Williamson] |
9051 | Since natural language is not precise it cannot be in the province of logic [Russell, by Keefe/Smith] |
9054 | Vagueness is only a characteristic of representations, such as language [Russell] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
7319 | If we give up synonymy, we have to give up significance, meaning and sense [Grice/Strawson] |