Famous Quotes | “Then you should say what you...

“Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on.
“I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least—at least I mean what I say—that’s the same thing, you know.” “Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. “Why you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!”
- Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
Attribution: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898), British logician, author, humorist. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 6 (1865). On the fact that propositions in A-form do not simply convert.

Categories: Author, Humorist, Language, Logic, Logician, Meaning

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