Logic is a tool: "Although the art of logic has many uses, if one is knowledgeable in logic and ignorant of everything else, his pursuit of philosophy is actually impeded by verbosity and overconfidence.
We follow the men forward through the developing alien crisis and backward in time through the remembered boyhoods of the four friends, understanding in the odd logic of telepathy how everything connects to everything else, and in particular how the spooky, funny-talking Duddits connects to aliens.
And is not this among them?" It is, even if, as Woolf suggests with that ominous "final," the sublime solipsism of reading can lead with an almost terrible logic to the eclipse of everything else.
As with Holmes or Mr. Spock, the life of logic consumes everything in view.
Thus, whereas the principles of physics are valid only in the actual world and in worlds that are nomologically similar to it, the principles of logic govern everything thinkable.
In no particular order, then, here are 10 favourites: DeLillo's first novel, published in 1971, shows a deep understanding of visual culture and the logic of advertising, which has everything to do with the gestures and ideas of the artists who came to preeminence in that decade.
But if supply and demand are in close balance (as they were in the oil market), even very small changes in either component can lead to large price shifts.In his book, "The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything", Tim Harford postulates a "marriage supermarket" in which men and women who agree to wed can present themselves at the checkout and share $100.
But if Arnauld took seriously the remark at the beginning of the Logic, "The reflections we can make on our ideas are perhaps the most important part of logic, since they are the foundation of everything else," he may well have thought that Malebranche's theory of ideas was an important source of the confusion of theology with philosophy that plagues TNG.
Of course, this logic that everything is God's will works best when YOUR will is fulfilled.
Although this idea went largely unchallenged during the presidential campaign, it flies in the face of everything we know about the economic logic of hiring decisions.
