gwern comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 01 March 2012 05:57:07PM 21 points [-]

"All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductive logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed."

--Morris Raphael Cohen, quoted by Cohen in "The Earth Is Round (p < 0.05)"