Occupation: Logician Birth: January 14, 1901 Death: October 26, 1983
Logic is justly considered the basis of all other sciences, even if only for the reason that in every argument we employ concepts taken from the fiel….
The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white..
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of man….
It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes i….
If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where t….
You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict..
However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests for a sequence of consecutive va….
There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly..