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“Behind your reaction is a feeling that whatever is 'true' must be able to be expressed logically. Men, in particular, have a tendency to confuse correct logic with an accurate assessment of a situation. Be careful of any situation that you have to reason through logically, because if you have to work to reason it out, you're probably missing something.”

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Imager

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L.E. Modesitt Jr.

L.E. Modesitt Jr. is an American science fiction and fantasy author known for his intricate world-building and deep character development. His works span a variety of themes from political intrigue to magical worlds, and have been well-received by readers worldwide. more

“In philosophy, metaphorical pluralism is the norm. Our most important abstract philosophical concepts, including time, causation, morality, and the mind, are all conceptualized by multiple metaphors, sometimes as many as two dozen. What each philosophical theory typically does is to choose one of those metaphors as "right," as the true literal meaning of the concept. One reason there is so much argumentation across philosophical theories is that different philosophers have chosen different metaphors as the "right" one, ignoring or taking as misleading all other commonplace metaphorical structurings of the concept. Philosophers have done this because they assume that a concept must have one and only one logic. But the cognitive reality is that our concepts have multiple metaphorical structurings.”

Reason Philosophy Logic Metaphor Concept Cognitive Science Embodied Mind

Book:Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought

Source: Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought

“Logic is an organized way to go wrong with confidence. We should all know by now that a logical course is not always the right one.”

Logic

Author:Charles F. Kettering

“The most flattering spin I can put on this phase of paradoxes and metaphysical tangles is that I was smart enough, at age fourteen, to destroy any fledgling hypothesis I came up with. A tentative explanation, theory, or formulation would pop up in my brain only to be attacked by what amounted to a kind of logical immune system, bent on eliminating all that was weak or defective. Which is to say that my mind had become a scene of furious predation, littered with the half-eaten corpses of vast theories and brilliant syntheses.”

Philosophy Logic Metaphysics Rationality

Book:Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

Source: Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

“Live, you say, in the present; Live only in the present. But I don’t want the present, I want reality; I want things that exist, not time that measures them. What is the present? It’s something relative to the past and the future. It’s a thing that exists in virtue of other things existing. I only want reality, things without the present. I don’t want to include time in my scheme. I don’t want to think about things as present; I want to think of them as things. I don’t want to separate them from themselves, treating them as present. I shouldn’t even treat them as real. I should treat them as nothing. I should see them, only see them; See them till I can’t think about them. See them without time, without space, To see, dispensing with everything but what you see. And this is the science of seeing, which isn’t a science.”