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He is quite mistaken. Having no inside acquaintance
with the logical household, he does not know as I do
from having been an inmate of both houses, that the
logicians aims and ideals are entirely foreign to the
mathematician, and the mathematician's to the
logician. The mathematician is intent on finding
ways of making intricacies intelligible. He wants to
facilitate reasoning. The logician does not care a
straw about that. He wants to know what the essential
ingredients of reasoning and thought in general are.
Far from wishing to abridge reasonings, as the
mathematician [seek??] is perpetually doing where he
can, the logician prefers to have them cumbrous
so that no element may be overlooked. This difference
is striking enough even where the logician is upon

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