Word: logic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Graduate Club. Boole's Algebra of Logic. Professor J. M. Peirce. G. A. R. Hall, Quincy Square...
...leisure. At work, he seems an immense will, regulated by very powerful and very precise intellectuals. He is grave, austere, self-sufficing, reserved, and the embodiment of dignity. If only his point of view is taken, his position on every question is found to be supported by the soundest logic; but, under the necessity for much action, he seems at times to give the benefit of the doubt too easily in favor of his own point of view. On this account, he rouses such frequent and, as it seems to us, such needed opposition. Against him all who see truths...
Graduate Club. Boole's Algebra of Logic. Professor J. M. Peirce. G. A. R. Hall, Quincy Square...
...support, but when the council learned the true state of affairs, they commended him and made him a present, which Zeno forbade him to accept. Cleanthes was different from most of the philosophers of that time, in that he did not care for fanciful syllogisms and high sounding logic, but he was a quiet man who did a good deal of thinking. He was known among his contemporaries as "The Ass." His biographer, after enumerating all his stupidities, ends his account rather curiously by saying, "he left many beautiful books...
...real world," and he was thinking, doubtless, of such books as are not merely the triumphs of pure intellect, however supreme, but of those in which intellect infused with the sense of beauty aims rather to produce delight than conviction, or, if conviction, then through intuition rather than formal logic, and, leaving what Donne wisely calls...