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Wells, H. G. (2009). First and last things: A confession of faith and a rule of life. Project Gutenberg. (Original work published 1908). Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (10/6/17, 12:37 PM) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (7/1/24, 1:44 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: Wells1908 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Ambiguity, Vagueness Creators: Wells Publisher: Project Gutenberg |
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1908 publication by G.P. Putnam's Sons. |
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"...as you look at finer and subtler things, as you leave the practical purpose for which the method exists, the element of error increases. Every species is vague, every term goes cloudy at its edges; and so in my way of thinking, relentless logic is only another name for a stupidity—for a sort of intellectual pigheadedness. If you push a philosophical or metaphysical inquiry through a series of valid syllogisms—never committing any generally recognised fallacy—you nevertheless leave behind you at each step a certain rubbing and marginal loss of objective truth, and you get deflections that are difficult to trace at each phase in the process. Every species waggles about in its definition, every tool is a little loose in its handle, every scale has its individual error."
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
Keywords: Ambiguity Vagueness |