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| | align="right" colspan="3" | — John Dewey, ''How We Think'', [Dew, 56] | | | align="right" colspan="3" | — John Dewey, ''How We Think'', [Dew, 56] |
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| ===Philosophy of Notation : Formal Terms and Flexible Types=== | | ===Philosophy of Notation : Formal Terms and Flexible Types=== |
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| <p>Where number is irrelevant, regimented mathematical technique has hitherto tended to be lacking. Thus it is that the progress of natural science has depended so largely upon the discernment of measurable quantity of one sort or another.</p> | | <p>Where number is irrelevant, regimented mathematical technique has hitherto tended to be lacking. Thus it is that the progress of natural science has depended so largely upon the discernment of measurable quantity of one sort or another.</p> |
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| | align="right" colspan="3" | — W.V. Quine, ''Mathematical Logic'', [Qui, 7] | | | align="right" colspan="3" | — W.V. Quine, ''Mathematical Logic'', [Qui, 7] |
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| ===The Analogy Between Real and Boolean Types=== | | ===The Analogy Between Real and Boolean Types=== |
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| <p>Measurement consists in correlating our subject matter with the series of real numbers; and such correlations are desirable because, once they are set up, all the well-worked theory of numerical mathematics lies ready at hand as a tool for our further reasoning.</p> | | <p>Measurement consists in correlating our subject matter with the series of real numbers; and such correlations are desirable because, once they are set up, all the well-worked theory of numerical mathematics lies ready at hand as a tool for our further reasoning.</p> |
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| | align="right" colspan="3" | — W.V. Quine, ''Mathematical Logic'', [Qui, 7] | | | align="right" colspan="3" | — W.V. Quine, ''Mathematical Logic'', [Qui, 7] |
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| ===Reality at the Threshold of Logic=== | | ===Reality at the Threshold of Logic=== |
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| <p>But no science can rest entirely on measurement, and many scientific investigations are quite out of reach of that device. To the scientist longing for non-quantitative techniques, then, mathematical logic brings hope.</p> | | <p>But no science can rest entirely on measurement, and many scientific investigations are quite out of reach of that device. To the scientist longing for non-quantitative techniques, then, mathematical logic brings hope.</p> |
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| | align="right" colspan="3" | — W.V. Quine, ''Mathematical Logic'', [Qui, 7] | | | align="right" colspan="3" | — W.V. Quine, ''Mathematical Logic'', [Qui, 7] |
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| ===Tables of Propositional Forms=== | | ===Tables of Propositional Forms=== |
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| <p>To the scientist longing for non-quantitative techniques, then, mathematical logic brings hope. It provides explicit techniques for manipulating the most basic ingredients of discourse.</p> | | <p>To the scientist longing for non-quantitative techniques, then, mathematical logic brings hope. It provides explicit techniques for manipulating the most basic ingredients of discourse.</p> |
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| | align="right" colspan="3" | — W.V. Quine, ''Mathematical Logic'', [Qui, 7–8] | | | align="right" colspan="3" | — W.V. Quine, ''Mathematical Logic'', [Qui, 7–8] |
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| ===An Interlude on the Path=== | | ===An Interlude on the Path=== |
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| <p>There would have been no beginnings: instead, speech would proceed from me, while I stood in its path – a slender gap – the point of its possible disappearance.</p> | | <p>There would have been no beginnings: instead, speech would proceed from me, while I stood in its path – a slender gap – the point of its possible disappearance.</p> |
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| | align="right" colspan="3" | — Michel Foucault, ''The Discourse on Language'', [Fou, 215] | | | align="right" colspan="3" | — Michel Foucault, ''The Discourse on Language'', [Fou, 215] |
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| ===The Extended Universe of Discourse=== | | ===The Extended Universe of Discourse=== |
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| <p>At the moment of speaking, I would like to have perceived a nameless voice, long preceding me, leaving me merely to enmesh myself in it, taking up its cadence, and to lodge myself, when no one was looking, in its interstices as if it had paused an instant, in suspense, to beckon to me.</p> | | <p>At the moment of speaking, I would like to have perceived a nameless voice, long preceding me, leaving me merely to enmesh myself in it, taking up its cadence, and to lodge myself, when no one was looking, in its interstices as if it had paused an instant, in suspense, to beckon to me.</p> |
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| | align="right" colspan="3" | — Michel Foucault, ''The Discourse on Language'', [Fou, 215] | | | align="right" colspan="3" | — Michel Foucault, ''The Discourse on Language'', [Fou, 215] |