Elementary Propositions

Famous quotes containing the words elementary propositions, elementary and/or propositions:

    “Elementary propositions consist of names.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “Listen. We converse as we live—by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.”
    —William Gass (b. 1924)

    “If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the “state of progressive collapse” is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)