From its opening scientific proposition, "The radiance of that star that leans on me/ Was shining years ago", to its sad and muted conclusion that "love arrived may find us somewhere else", the eight-line poem epitomised the path her work would take: the path of flawless traditional verse-technique, sharp imagery, logical thought and emotional sensitivity.
After all, patients come to see me in a major research hospital, the ultimate house of science, a temple to the rational mind built on a foundation of countless sharp-edged logical observations made by experts from Hippocrates right up to the doctors and researchers published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine.
Tarski rather questioned whether there were "objective reasons" for the sharp distinction between logical and non-logical terms and he pointed out that Carnap's distinction between the logical and the empirical was not a hard and fast one.
By contrast, Tarski had merely observed that, at a still more fundamental level, he knew of no basis for a sharp distinction between logical and non-logical terms.
This would account naturally for the fact that Tarski was skeptical about the possibility of finding a sharp distinction between logical and extra-logical terms, for it might very well depend on the context of investigation what terms and what laws are considered as forming part of the "logic" of the investigation.
It was also the case that Polish logicians had inclinations to empiricism as a general epistemological attitude and this philosophy often resulted in sympathies to nominalism (Tarski), constructivism (Mostowski) and scepticism concerning the sharp distinction between logical and extralogical truth (Tarski).
Considerations can begin with an early critique that has given rise in some quarters to a sharp distinction between Viennese logical positivism and German logical empiricism, with the former accused of reductionism and the latter praised for their anti-reductionism, a distinction which falsely discounts the changing nature and variety of Vienna Circle doctrines.
Reichenbach insists, sometimes in rather sharp language, that the logical positivists and unnamed "pretentious" logicians are simply wrong about locating the foundations of knowledge in sense data or analytical truths.
Thus, quantifiers are on a par with the other logical operations, in sharp contrast with the other algebraic approaches to logic.
The theory of descriptions has been criticized by some linguists and philosophers who see descriptions and other noun phrases as full-fledged linguistic constituents of sentences, and who see the sharp distinction between grammatical and logical form as a mistake.
