Nonbeing Must In Some Sense Be, Otherwise

If Pressed To Supplement Tweedledee's Ostensive Definition Of Logic With A Discursive Definition Of The Same Subject, I Would Say That Logic Is The Systematic Study Of The Logical Truths. Pressed Further, I Would Say That A Sentence Is Logically True If All Sentences With Its Grammatical Structure Are True. Pressed Further Still, I Would Say To Read This Book.

Treating 'water' As A Name Of A Single Scattered Object Is Not Intended To Enable Us To Dispense With General Terms And Plurality Of Reference. Scatter Is In Fact An Inconsequential Detail.

We Must Not Leap To The Fatalistic Conclusion That We Are Stuck With The Conceptual Scheme That We Grew Up In. We Can Change It, Bit By Bit, Plank By Plank, Though Meanwhile There Is Nothing To Carry Us Along But The Evolving Conceptual Scheme Itself. The Philosopher's Task Was Well Compared By Neurath To That Of A Mariner Who Must Rebuild His Ship On The Open Sea.

A Curious Thing About The Ontological Problem Is Its Simplicity. It Can Be Put Into Three Anglo-saxon Monosyllables: 'what Is There?' It Can Be Answered, Moreover, In A Word--'everything'--and Everyone Will Accept This Answer As True.

It Is Within Science Itself, And Not In Some Prior Philosophy, That Reality Is To Be Identified And Described.