For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared.
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.