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.
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Dan Millman
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"The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do
nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you
plan or hope...
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