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]