[lit-ideas] Re: A Service Profession


On 29-Jun-09, at 10:12 PM, Robert Paul wrote:
'...it will hardly be possible to end controversies and impose silence on the sects, unless we resolve complex arguments into simple calculations, and substitute well-defined symbols for terms with vague and uncertain meanings...Once this has been done, however...disputes between philosophers will become as unnecessary as disputes between accountants. All we need to do is...take up our pens, or sit down at our abacus, and say to one another, _calculemus_.'
A free Mutton College T-shirt to the first person to identify the author of this quote (size XXXL only). 

It sounds like Leibniz to me.

Karl Trogge
Hamburg

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