" The particular surrender of philosophy to science in the matter of logic--
to mathematics as science's logic--is part of the general destruction philosophy
has suffered at the hands of science, and of the general intellectual deterioration
that science's pre-eminence in the intellectual life of this time has brought about. The
imposition of mathematical criteria of logic on linguistic analysis has been fostering
teachings that undermine what faith may still survive in the existence of standards of linguistic
correctness, and the human importance of there being such standards. Where such
an attitude of mind takes lead in the faculties of judgement, which require for their
functioning fixed value-scales, such as are to be found stabilized by endless testing
in the logical scheme of language, the moral energies go into decline." L(R)J
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to mathematics as science's logic--is part of the general destruction philosophy
has suffered at the hands of science, and of the general intellectual deterioration
that science's pre-eminence in the intellectual life of this time has brought about. The
imposition of mathematical criteria of logic on linguistic analysis has been fostering
teachings that undermine what faith may still survive in the existence of standards of linguistic
correctness, and the human importance of there being such standards. Where such
an attitude of mind takes lead in the faculties of judgement, which require for their
functioning fixed value-scales, such as are to be found stabilized by endless testing
in the logical scheme of language, the moral energies go into decline." L(R)J
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