Is, then, philosophy doomed to be nonsense (unsinnig), or, at best, senseless (sinnlos) when it does logic, but, in any case, meaningless?
So many questions, but as with all senseless acts of violence, there is no logic worth comprehending, no "aha moment".
The characteristic of being senseless applies not only to the propositions of logic but also to mathematics or the pictorial form itself of the pictures that do represent.
It is not news that so-called senseless acts often unfold along the coordinates of an inner logic.
Gamma rose to become one of the rulers of Poland because of his fanatical devotion to Communist doctrine: "This was the reward for those who knew how to think correctly, who understood the logic of History, who did not surrender to senseless sentimentality!" But Gamma could make this submission, Milosz suggests, only because he was not truly a poet.
Such a sentence would be ludicrous, but so, by all appearances, is the case against her: a waste of public resources, a needless infliction of pain on a family already grieving, and a senseless prioritization of a frequently ignored (and easily ignorable) law over logic, compassion, decency.
But such logic points to European rather than Middle Eastern antecedents for the senseless war between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Michael Steel, a spokesman for Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), tweeted that the Senate Democrats' use of the filibuster was "undemocratic & senseless" -- a dramatic change in tone from what Boehner said in the last Congress..@AJentleson @deirdrewalshcnn Agree your logic is circular.
"These killings were senseless.
