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Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus:

Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-
Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.

This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

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6.2 Mathematics is a logical method. The propositions of mathematics are equations, and therefore pseudo-propositions.
6.3 The exploration of logic means the exploration of everything that is subject to law. And outside logic everything is accidental.
6.4 All propositions are of equal value.
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Formal logic is nothing but the study of the properties common to all classifications; it teaches us that two soldiers who are members of the same regiment belong by this very fact to the same brigade, and consequently to the same division; and the whole theory of the syllogism is reduced to this.

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