Symbolic Logic Quotes

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

Formal logic is mathematics, and there are philosophers like Wittgenstein that are very mathematical, but what they're really doing is mathematics - it's not talking about things that have affected computer science; it's mathematical logic.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

I'm left-brained, so I'm all about a mathematical approach to language. I've always been interested in that.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!