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We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.

Susan Stebbing

A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.

Susan Stebbing

Susan Stebbing

Susan Stebbing

Born: December 2, 1885

Died: September 11, 1943 (aged 57)

Bio: L. Susan Stebbing was a British philosopher. She belonged to the 1930s generation of analytic philosophy, and was a founder in 1933 of the journal Analysis.

Known for:

Thinking to Some Purpose (1939)
A Modern Elementary Logic (1943)

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