[Corpora-List] What is corpora and what is not?

[John F Sowa]

On 10/9/2012 7:44 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
> Every philosopher from Kant to Wittgenstein has said that only
> arbitrarily stipulated terms, such as those in mathematics,
> can be defined by necessary and sufficient conditions.

Correction:  Delete the word "every".

There are many, especially the Vienna circlers, who had the vain
hope that they could define concepts precisely by using logic.
That is why they ignored Wittgenstein's later philosophy,
and that is why Wittgenstein refused to go to any meeting
that included Carnap.

John

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