"… was of the brooding type. He sat when he addressed his handful of students (who turned out afterwards, however, to be a not unimportant handful) and he had all the air, as has been noted by , of the typical philosopher who is engaged, at the moment, in bringing fresh truth by divination out of some inexhaustible well. He got his effect not by anything that could be called an inspiring personality, in the usual sense of the term, but rather by creating the impression that we had before us a profound, original, dispassionate and impassioned seeker of truth. No effort was made to create a connected and not inconsistent whole out of the matter of each lecture. In fact, so devious and unpredictable was his course that he once, to the delight of his students, proposed at the end of his lecture, that we should form (for greater freedom of discussion) a Metaphysical Club, though he had begun the lecture by defining metaphysics to be the “science of unclear thinking.”"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Educators from the United StatesFeminists from the United StatesLogicians from the United StatesJohns Hopkins University alumniJohns Hopkins University faculty
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
(quote from pp. 717–718; edited by and Wendell Ter Brush)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christine_Ladd-Franklin
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Christine Ladd-Franklin
(December 1, 1847 – March 5, 1930) was an American psychologist, logician, mathematician, and pioneering activist for equal educational and career opportunities for women. She is known for her theory of evolution of color vision. She was elected in 1899 a Fellow of the (AAAS).
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Christine Ladd-Franklin →
Related Quotes
"I shall adopt the convention by which particular propositions are taken as implying the existence of their subjects, …"
"The whole field of Deductive Logic, even when thought of merely in the terms of common language, has acquired, for th…"
"What gives significance and value to truths is that they permit of interesting predictions."
"In their attempts to get around these artificial barriers and inconsistencies, early women scientists developed a gre…"
"Music is my first love. Ever since I was a little girl I've dreamt of one day being lucky enough to share my music wi…"
"Lyrics to me are of utmost importance and they mean so much to me — in every song that I write, the lyrics have to co…"
"I've dedicated myself to ensuring that every word that I say, everything I write, every role that I play … I know tha…"
"One hundred years hence, what a change will be made, In politics, morals, religion and trade, In statesmen who wrangl…"
"Our laws then will be uncompulsory rules, Our prisons converted to national schools."
"Oppression and war will be heard of no more, Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore, Conventions will …"