> "The conclusion is that Logic, conceived as an adequate
> analysis of the advance of thought, is a fake. It is a superb
> instrument, but it requires a background of common sense. …
> "My point is that the final outlook of Philosophic thought
> cannot be based upon the exact statements which form the basis of
> special sciences.
> "The exactness is a fake." (Whitehead "Immortality" in
> Essays in Science and Philosophy, pp. 72-4)
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What question begging.
As if *anybody* knows what the *final outlook* of philosophical thought [no caps on that word please, Al] is.....
Whitehead's *proof* of 1+1 is in the Principia.
So vagueness is in the world as well as our language. Big deal.
Sheesh,
Ian