“ Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? ”
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908). copy citation
Author | G. K. Chesterton |
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Source | Orthodoxy |
Topic | logic good |
Date | 1908 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/130/pg130-images.html |
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“It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. If you are merely a sceptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the question, "Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?" The young sceptic says, "I have a right to think for myself." But the old sceptic, the complete sceptic, says, "I have no right to think for myself.”
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