Acquaintance Quote by Bertrand Russell

A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general…

— William Strunk, Jr

“What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.”

— Albert Camus

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which…

— A.J. Ayer

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

— Aleister Crowley

The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification.

— Moritz Schlick

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

— Jurgen Habermas

“This, until a better can be suggested, may serve as a substitute for the Categories of Aristotle considered as a classification of Existences. The…

— John Stuart Mill

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of…

— Jacques Derrida

In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.

— Alexander Hamilton

“The simplest argument for the thesis of the Background is that the literal meaning of any sentence can only determine its truth conditions or…

— John Rogers Searle

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

— Milton Friedman