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"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
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"Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion."
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"Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas."
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"If-Then" is a structured logic of humans' thought,who have memories and imagination in their mind. If both don't exist, Then this quote has never even been written."
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"If thou really believe in one God,irrationality is subset of thou logic."
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"And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake."
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"There is no logic in logics except an illogical logic."
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"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting."
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"It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use."
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"Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? - in ancient astronauts? - in the Bermuda triangle? - in life after death?No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?"Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be."
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"It is never too late to give up your prejudices."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"I think Veblen had an interest in logic."
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"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy."
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"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
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"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church."
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"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton."
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"And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished."
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"In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine."
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"When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that."
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"Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis."
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