Just this past summer, I took online courses in introductory logic and law through civilization. Often the weight of history, with its facts heaped upon facts requiring complex chains of inference to sort through — I mean complex for someone with the soft brain of a tomato merchant; for me the premises are obvious and the conclusions dire and inescapable — threatened to crush me, and I was ultimately forced to abandon the whole undertaking. By way of recovery, I spent the rest of the summer immersed in a Freudian meditation on some choice tabloids. The mysterious lives of celebrities make for challenging induction. The reasoning process involves navigating many gaps in our knowledge of them. What is certain is that under the iceberg of glitz and glamor lie neurotic, depraved individuals with bizarre habits and hobbies, people who think they’re above the law. Benson Bruno
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Though it has been a while since I have written here, I still feel that it is a good opportunity to share a few thoughts about the importance of logic in our lives. Logic, in a simple sense, deals with the structure of arguments and the conclusions that can be logically derived from the premises. It has its origins in Aristotle's writings on logic. The basic premise of Aristotle's logic is that statements are true or false based on their logical truth values; statements with true logical values are true, statements with false logical values are false.

Statements with intermediate logical values may be neither true nor false but may be neither certain nor uncertain (probability). However, if we want to make statements about things beyond the scope of truth, we must make use of probability; for example, claiming "the probability of happiness is 100%".

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