A Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

Willard Van Orman Quine

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Grammar Logic Tree Truth Up

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Willard Van Orman Quine
American - Philosopher
June 25, 1908 - December 25, 2000

No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.

Richard Whately

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Richard Chenevix Trench

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ... [T]he word "logic" has a broad meaning, and is not restricted exclusively to the science of argumentative reasoning. [It includes] Grammar [which] is "the science of speaking and writing correctly-the starting point of all liberal studies."

John of Salisbury

First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.

John Selden

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

Joseph Joubert

Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away.

Johan Oscar Smith

Al Sharpton chases the spotlight the way Obama chases golf balls

Greg Gutfeld

Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick.

Ken Kalfus

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

David R. Ellis

Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

Douglas Wilson

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

Theodore Sturgeon

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

Betty Smith

Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.