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The junior college movement has not had time to make clear its full meaning. In so far as it aims to tempt the able and more ambitious minds from the schools to seek training beyond the obligation limit of 14 years, and to make easier the elimination of minds not...
Mr. Russell's former instructor had an effective last word. "I see now what Socrates would have said, as he drew his cloak about him, in the conclusion of the missing dialogue; 'I understand now, my dear Bertrand, the meaning of meaning is that my mouth is watering.
"Meaning is connected with psychology in its vagueness. Even 'cat' is not precise, for at some time in evolution there were animals not quite 'cats.' At one instant it would have been difficult to say whether Napoleon was alive or dead, though when he was alive he took care to...
"The abstract words of logical propositions are more free of vagueness, perhaps in virtue of having no meaning at all. You can keep logic pure by keeping it in a world by itself. It is when you start to apply it that you run into trouble. Logic is concerned with...
It will be profitable, in spite of their familiarity, to sum up the grounds on which criticism of the colleges is based. The essence of that criticism is an attack on the expert. This characteristic member of modern society, it is seen, has a technique for dealing with certain situations...