All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

— Bertrand Russell, Vagueness (1923)

Source: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/vagueness.htm

From his 1923 essay 'Vagueness', first published in The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy.

Topics: mathematics