Colson predicts that Pessoa's writings "will unlikely appeal to Anglo-American philosophers"; his "impressionistic and fragmentary" style offers, for better or worse, "profound insights without logical apparatus".
Among the most important developments in the latter area were Richard Montague's profound insights into the logical (especially intensional) semantics of language, and Hans Kamp's and Irene Heim's development of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT), offering a systematic, semantically formal account of anaphora in language.
It was a simple, profound argument, and it lacked the logical flaws of some of the Court's abortion rulings.
Russell's logical atomism had a profound influence on analytic philosophy in the first half of the 20th century; indeed, it is arguable that the very name "analytic philosophy" derives from Russell's defense of the method of analysis.
Asking the question, "Do you want to sleep with other people?" of your former mate may seem innocuous, logical even, but the profound, soul-crushing truths of the answer (which, naturally, is yes) can send you into an emotional tailspin.
This subtle change has a profound effect and is essential to achieving logical results since whole genome comparisons based on raw abundance often fail to find a close proximity between closely related species.
The idea of "English votes for English laws" seems logical enough, but the implications are profound for our governance, our democracy and our country.
He also showed that no such system can prove its own consistency: a stronger set of logical assumptions is needed to prove the consistency of a weaker set (a result of profound importance in the theory of computing).
His dissent deeply misinterprets multiple Supreme Court decisions, demonstrates a profound lack of understanding about how the industry works and produces absurd results if taken to its logical conclusions.
