"Abstractly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and thus the value of that reason which is cultivated in any especial form other than the abstractly logical. I dispute, in particular, the reason educed by mathematical study. The mathematics are the science of form and quantity; mathematical reasoning is merely logic applied to observation upon form and quantity. The great error lies in supposing that even the truths of what is called pure algebra ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Detective Stories • Various |
