Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Antoine Arnauld
Born: February 6, 1612
Died: August 6, 1694 (aged 82)
Bio: Antoine Arnauld le Grand, as contemporaries called him, to distinguish him from his father was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician.
Known for:
- Port-Royal Logic (1662)
- Port-Royal Grammar (1660)
- Logic, or, The art of thinking
- On True and False Ideas
- The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic