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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

"Logic and mathematics are the cement that holds the scientific structure together, ensures its self-consistency, and helps us prevent errors of false inference. Logic and math do not, and cannot, generate new truths about nature. They only expose and reformulate the truths contained in our models, theories and laws."

"In this context, logic and mathematics are reliable and essential tools. Outside of this context they are instruments of error and self-delusion. Whenever you hear a politician, theologian or evangelist casting verbal arguments in the trappings of logic, you can be pretty sure that person is talking moonshine."

—Donald E. Simanek, October 1997

 

The gods did not reveal from the beginning
All things to us; but in the course of time
Through seeking, men found that which is better.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor will he know it; neither of the gods,
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it;
For all is but a woven web of guesses.

Xenophanes (c. 570-c. 480 BCE) Greek philosopher.

Mathematics & Reality

Albert Einstein observed: "Insofar as mathematics is exact, it does not apply to reality; and insofar as mathematics applies to reality, it is not exact."