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“It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.”

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“Of course, I must say that I don't think America is God's gift to anybody--if it is, God's days have got to be numbered. That God these people say they serve--and do serve, in ways that they don't know--has got a very nasty sense of humor. Like you'd beat the shit out of Him, if He was a man. Or: if you were.”

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“Some persons fancy that bias and counter-bias are favorable to the extraction of truth–that hot and partisan debate is the way to investigate. This is the theory of our atrocious legal procedure. But Logic puts its heel upon this suggestion. It irrefragably demonstrates that knowledge can only be furthered by the real desire for it, and that the methods of obstinacy, of authority and every mode of trying to reach a foregone conclusion, are absolutely of no value. These things are proved. The reader is at liberty to think so or not as long as the proof is not set forth, or as long as he refrains from examining it. Just so, he can preserve, if he likes, his freedom of opinion in regard to the propositions of geometry; only, in that case, if he takes a fancy to read Euclid, he will do well to skip whatever he finds with A, B, C, etc., for, if he reads attentively that disagreeable matter, the freedom of his opinion about geometry may unhappily be lost forever.”

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Book:The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, Volume 1 1867-1893

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“I think that stupidity is like a wild fire burning through the social fabric of an intrinsically reasonable existence.”

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“Religion equals logic... but the logic of the human mind can't perceptible it”

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“We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.”

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“Love may be a ring that has no end, but the logic is far from circular.”

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Book:Better to be able to love than to be loveable

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“Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.”

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Book:Evidence, Decision and Causality

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“Physical laws are ruled by logic, and are ungovernable: so when the die comes to rest on its edge, it owes neither apology nor account.”

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“Its remarkable the logic we build around a misapprehension.”

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“Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.”

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