We must set the precedent for justice and accountability before fascists do.

How about, she said, that you do the logical thing because it's the logical thing to do?

Logic precedes every experience — that something is so.

Besides that power, we need a path, an intelligent sense of logical progression.

the rational treatment of any subject ought to take its start from definition, that readers may understand what the author is writing about.

The “experience” which we need to understand logic is not that such and such is the case, but that something is; but that is no experience. Logic precedes every experience — that something is so. It is before the How, not before the What.

Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied.

I do view the march of technology as kind of inevitable. But I would like to accompany it with reason. And one form of reasoning that’s useful in these debates is to find precedence.

Starting from what we understand and seeing clearly its inadequacies can provide a path to conceptual progress.

What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

If imagination would disentangle itself from absurdities, soon we should have it harnessed to reason, pulling the same plough.

Let's try common sense. A novel concept.

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

It’s a matter of discipline, and it starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.