Command Quote by Robert W. Floyd

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

— Moritz Schlick

“Definitions create conditions.”

— Alfred Korzybski

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old…

— Bertrand Russell

A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.

— Anatol Rapoport

In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of…

— A.J. Ayer

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents…

— Bertrand Russell

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of…

— Noam Chomsky

“Syntax, like government, can only be obeyed. It is therefore of no use except when you have something particular to command such as: Go…

— John Cage

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

— Joseph Joubert

As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative -…

— Frederick Lenz

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a…

— Noam Chomsky

Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has…

— Noam Chomsky