Word: logicalã
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...problem is, although we attach a lot of brouhaha to goodbyes, the ritual is not terribly logical??or terribly meaningful. According to convention, we should use goodbyes to relay exactly how much the other person means to us, how they have changed us, and how they will be remembered. It may be a harmless custom, but it is certainly not a meaningful one. For whatever affection or flattery is uttered in those final moments should pale in comparison to the expressions of appreciation that have built up and sustained a friendship or relationship. Those close to me know...
...workers of the world, not absurd questions such as “what is the number one?” Yet as we worked through the syllabus, I was struck by Frege’s injunction “always to separate sharply the psychological from the logical??—to distinguish clearly the reasons why we ought to hold our beliefs from the contingencies, causes and baser instincts that might explain why we do hold them. It seems like an obvious point, especially in the context of Frege’s philosophy of mathematics...