BRACERS Record Detail for 18019
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"Monday night" "Yes, the infant phenomenon [Wiener] is staying here till I go to America. I have read his Dr.'s thesis, and think him more infant than phenomenon. Americans have no standards."
"Lecture VI*—all that about the bad logic produced by fading of the mystic vision was good, wasn't it? I know the last three are much better than the others—they took much more out of me."
"I have got an international book on logic to review for the Nation, consisting of articles by...." Vanity first predisposed him favourably to the book, because of the index references to himself. "But alas on reading it I find it very bad...."
Housman (A.E.).
"I shall see Mrs. Whitehead Friday."
Teaching.
*Now Ch. II?—"Logic as the Essence of Philosophy".