There Never Was A Sounder Logical Maxim

Notwithstanding All That Has Been Discovered Since Newton's Time, His Saying That We Are Little Children Picking Up Pretty Pebbles On The Beach While The Whole Ocean Lies Before Us Unexplored Remains Substantially As True As Ever, And Will Do So Though We Shovel Up The Pebbles By Steam Shovels And Carry Them Off In Carloads.

Theoretically, I Grant You, There Is No Possibility Of Error In Necessary Reasoning. But To Speak Thus "theoretically," Is To Uselanguage In A Pickwickian Sense. In Practice, And In Fact, Mathematics Is Not Exempt From That Liability To Error That Affects Everything That Man Does.

The Definition Of Definition Is At Bottom Just What The Maxim Of Pragmatism Expresses.

Unless Man Have A Natural Bent In Accordance With Nature's, He Has No Chance Of Understanding Nature At All.

One Will Meet, For Example, The Virtual Assumption That What Is Relative To Thought Cannot Be Real. But Why Not, Exactly? Red Is Relative To Sight, But The Fact That This Or That Is In That Relation To Vision That We Call Being Red Is Not Itself Relative To Sight; It Is A Real Fact.