To a Logician

I've been thinking a lot about the blogosphere in general lately, and one of the things that recently popped into my mind was a poem written by my grandmother back when she was studying English at Stanford:

To A Logician

Say you thus and say you so--
Tell me, do you really know
What it is you speak about?
Does there never come a doubt
As to the validity
Of the things you say must be?
Is it true vocabulary
Really makes a man so very
Much more certain than the rest--
Who, it is to be confessed,
Cannot follow very clearly
All the words you use and merely
Wonder what it's all about?
Come, sir! Do you never doubt?
Say you thus and say you so--
Tell me, do you really know?

~Margaret Tuttle, October 1939