[Oddly enough, Putnam believes part of the attraction of some of these formalisms is their obscurity]. "I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!"
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Putnam as quoted in: Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom (2005) What Philosophers Think. p.233Hilary Putnam
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