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Full Idea
It is foolish to study logic unless one is persuaded that one's own reasonings are more or less bad.
Gist of Idea
Only study logic if you think your own reasoning is deficient
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Criterion of Validity in Reasoning [1903], II)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.127
14779 | I reason in order to avoid disappointment and surprise [Peirce] |
14777 | That a judgement is true and that we judge it true are quite different things [Peirce] |
14778 | Facts are hard unmoved things, unaffected by what people may think of them [Peirce] |
14780 | Only study logic if you think your own reasoning is deficient [Peirce] |