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Logic - 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...
Posted on: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 07:53:45 +0000

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