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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

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Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

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