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Chapter 3
Logic
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
JOHN LOCKE
Your life is full of daily decisions that, over time, determine the trajec-
tory of your personal history. Many of these decisions involve making
signicant choices about who to marry, what career path to undertake,
what to eat, how to best manage your nances, or what political cause
to support. Every decision that you make in your life is based on some
belief about the nature of the universe and, perhaps, the very meaning of
life itself. It is apparent if we adopt beliefs that are false, then decisions
that are based on those beliefs will be misguided at best and destruc-
tive at the ...