Quote: a demonstration in analytic logic leads to an immense tautology. Logic is sterile unless made fruitful by intuition

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A demonstration truly founded upon the principles of analytic logic will be composed of a series of propositions. Some, serving as premises, will be identities or definitions; the others will be deduced from the premises step by step. ... if we replace successively the different expressions therein by their definition and if this operation be carried as far as possible, there will finally remain only identities, so that all will reduce to an immense tautology. Logic therefore remains sterile unless made fruitful by intuition.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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