Quote of the day
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
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)







