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• To be is to be the value of a variable.
• Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the…
• Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
• Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us…
• It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge…
• Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
• Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
• Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
• No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
• Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
• Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical…
• For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by…

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