Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Roy Wood Sellars
Born: July 9, 1880
Died: September 5, 1973 (aged 93)
Bio: Roy Wood Sellars was a Canadian philosopher of critical realism and religious humanism, and a proponent of evolutionary naturalism. His son was the philosopher Wilfrid Sellars. For much of his career he taught at the University of Michigan.
Known for:
- The next step in religion (1918)
- The essentials of logic (1917)
- Evolutionary Naturalism (1922)
- The Next Step in Democracy (1916)