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“Murder isn't the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation.”

Book:The Devotion of Suspect X

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The Devotion of Suspect X

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Keigo Higashino

Keigo Higashino is a celebrated Japanese author specializing in mystery novels. Born on February 4, 1958, he has garnered international recognition for his intricate plots and psychological insights. His works frequently explore themes of crime, suspense, and human psychology, making him a favorite among mystery enthusiasts worldwide. more

“Review the multiplicity of language-games in the following examples, and in others: Giving orders, and obeying them— Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements— Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)— Reporting an event— Speculating about an event— Forming or teasing a hypothesis— Presenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagrams— Making up a story; and reading it— Singing catches— Guessing riddles— Making riddles— Making a joke; telling it— Solving a problem in practical arithmetic— Translating from one language into another— Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, praying. —It is interesting to compare the multiplicity of the tools in language and of the ways they are used, the multiplicity of kinds of word and sentence, with what logicians have said about the structure of language. (Including the author of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.)”

Philosophy Language Logic Language Game

Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“We have come to love the music of proof. Logical connection for us is not some popular song about a finch, but a choral symphony, so difficult and so inspired that the conductor must exert all his energy to keep the performers under his control.”

Logic Proof

Book:Critical Prose and Letters

Source: Critical Prose and Letters

“A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing ability without a pencil is no particular advantage.”

Computer Economics Logic Judgement Literacy Goverment

Author:Robert S. McNamara

“destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time, which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which [God] has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with eternity or with the Present--either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself, or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.”