Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Clarence Irving Lewis
Born: April 12, 1883
Died: February 3, 1964 (aged 80)
Bio: Clarence Irving Lewis, usually cited as C. I. Lewis, was an American academic philosopher and the founder of conceptual pragmatism. First a noted logician, he later branched into epistemology, and during the last 20 years of his life, he wrote much on ethics.
Known for:
- An analysis of knowledge and valuation (1946)
- A survey of symbolic logic (1918)
- Symbolic logic (1900)