Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.
William Stanley Jevons, Elementary Lessons on Logic (1870), Preface.
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For most people, rather than assertoric logic being the means of distilling truth and probabilistic logic being the means of arriving at best approximations of truth within uncertainty, logic of any sort is a weapon of rhetoric — used evilly by their opponents though justly by themselves.