“Logic,” Leibniz said. “Logic has a dismal reputation among the higher primates in the Royal Society—” “Because they associate it with the Scholastic pedants who tormented them in university,” Leibniz said agreeably. “I’m not talking about that sort of thing! When I say logic, I mean Euclidean.” “Begin with certain axioms and combine them according to definite rules—” “Yes—and build up a system of laws that is as provable, and as internally consistent, as the theory of conic sections.”
