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Our Argument Is Not Flatly Circular, But Something Like It. It Has The Form, Figuratively Speaking, Of A Closed Curve In Space.

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.

Implication Is Thus The Very Texture Of Our Web Of Belief, And Logic Is The Theory That Traces It.

The Totality Of Our So-called Knowledge Or Beliefs, From The Most Casual Matters Of Geography And History To The Profoundest Laws Of Atomic Physics Or Even Of Pure Mathematics And Logic, Is A Man-made Fabric Which Impinges On Experience Only Along The Edges. Or, To Change The Figure, Total Science Is Like A Field Of Force Whose Boundary Conditions Are Experience.

Language Is A Social Art.