Perhaps one of my favorite quotes, while Hazlitt's book compelled me to commit solely to studying Logic for 3+ years starting with Jevons, then Mill, Boole, Shannon, Wittgenstein, Thomson, de Morgan, Aristotle, Grayling, Hamilton-Bart, and others.
To note, towards the end of aforesaid study I was equally if not exceedingly compelled to commit solely to studying Theology for the last 2 to 3 years and still in progress, thus the occasional posted quotes by Kuyper, Bavinck, Vos, etc. I digress, and so the quote...
"A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing."
Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993)
Thinking as a Science (1916)
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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
Is 1:18 / Mt 5:9 / 2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23
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