Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried…

Bertrand Russell
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. ✨ Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1988). Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950, p.180, Psychology Press
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. ✨ Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1988). Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950, p.180, Psychology Press

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