Unlimited Logic

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination. - Nathan Campbell


Since both are infinite we have barely scratched the surface.

Say what?

If atheism is a religion then not collecting stamps is a hobby. - Amy Alkon


If healthcare is a right then not wanting healthcare is also a right. So much for Universal coverage.
(Check your premises)


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Exceptional Cases

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases. - Robert J. Sawyer 


The trap in inductive logic.

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Don't Put Garbage In

Beware of the "Black Swan" fallacy. Deductive logic is tautological; there is no way to get a new truth out of it, and it manipulates false statements as readily as true ones. If you fail to remember this, it can trip you - with perfect logic. The designers of the earliest computers called this the "Gigo Law." i.e., "Garbage in, garbage out." Inductive logic is much more difficult - but can produce new truths. - Robert Heinlein 


For everyday living this is like picking the nits off a gnats nuts but for life you aught to know what he is talking about. (By the way - he's got it wrong.)


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Consistency Please

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei 


Run that by me again please......don't abandon reason, yet you took your religion on faith?

What is Reason?

Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion. - Dewey Henize

Reason integrates perceptions by means of logic - which distinguishes mankind from the animal world when used.

Measuring Goodness

Listen, here's what I think. I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do. By what we deny ourselves. What we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include. - From the movie - Chocolat

Because you didn't rob a bank today does not make you a good person but you will find those who try to convince you otherwise using "logic" of this kind.

Logical and Musical

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music. - Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

Beware of those who use one as an excuse to ignore the other.

Rumors

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread. - Richard Armour



To think logically one must never base your premise on a rumor. Base your premise on facts.

To think emotionally (if that is really thinking), go ahead and have fun with rumors.

Horseshoe Luck

Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house."Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck?"."Of course not," Bohr replied, "but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not." - Neils Bohr



Circular logic?

Dinner Conversation

"Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music." - Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

Seek out those you can have an imaginative, logical, rhapsodic conversation with and take them out to dinner.