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Topic·Logic✕clear

Novel

If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass · 1871

★ 5.5

Novel · Magazine · Detective fiction

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of the Four · 1890

★ 5.4

Novel · Children's literature

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass · 1871

★ 3.8

Newspaper

Fallacies, which do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

G.K. Chesterton

1930

★ 3.6

Short story · Detective fiction

With method and logic one can accomplish anything!

Agatha Christie

The Kidnapped Prime Minister · 1924

★ 2.1

Religious literature

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy · 1908

★ 1.9

Essay · Biography

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of "touching" a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

G.K. Chesterton

1902

★ 0.9

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