#logic

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Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.


Philip K. Dick


#logic #philosophy #logic

MAKING THE LIE MAKE SENSE: When denial (his or ours) can no longer hold and we finally have to admit to ourselves that we’ve been lied to, we search frantically for ways to keep it from disrupting our lives. So we rationalize. We find “good reasons” to justify his lying, just as he almost always accompanies his confessions with “good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to judge him. Allowing the lies to register in our consciousness means having to make room for any number of frightening possibilities: • He’s not the man I thought he was. • The relationship has spun out of control and I don’t know what to do • The relationship may be over. Most women will do almost anything to avoid having to face these truths. Even if we yell and scream at him when we discover that he’s lied to us, once the dust settles, most of us will opt for the comforting territory of rationalization. In fact, many of us are willing to rewire our senses, short-circuit our instincts and intelligence, and accept the seductive comfort of self-delusion.


Susan Forward


#compulsive-liars #deceit #liar #lies #pathological-liars

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.


Mahmoud Abbas


#aim #aimed #apartheid #believe #cause

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.


Brian Aldiss


#come #conscious mind #help #i #may

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.


Isabel Allende


#chaos #chooses #chronological #fiction #first

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.


Marian Anderson


#disease #eats #fear #inhuman #logic

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.


Hans Urs von Balthasar


#created #divine #god #man #paul

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.


A. R. Ammons


#besides #class #differs #discourse #everything