The Art of Logic in an Illogical World Quotes

“Mathematics is the logical study of how logical things work.”
― Eugenia Cheng, The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

“powerful aspect of abstraction is that many different situations become the same when you forget some details.”
― Eugenia Cheng, The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

“In science, a “theory” is an explanation that is rigorously tested according to a clear framework, and deemed to be statistically highly likely to be correct. (More accurately, it is deemed statistically unlikely that the outcome would occur without the explanation being correct.)”
― Eugenia Cheng, The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

“If people disagree, it’s often a result of different points of view stemming from different fundamental beliefs, not that one is right and the other is wrong.”
― Eugenia Cheng, The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

“The world is awash with terrible arguments, conflict, divisiveness, fake news, victimhood, exploitation, prejudice, bigotry, blame, shouting, and miniscule attention spans. When cat memes attract more attention than murders, is logic dead? When a headline goes viral regardless of its veracity, has rationality become futile? Too often, people make simple and dramatic statements for effect, impact, acclaim, and to try and grab some limelight in a world where endless sources are competing relentlessly for our attention all the time.”
― Eugenia Cheng, The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

“Logic is a process of constructing arguments by careful deduction. We can try to do this in normal life with varying results, because things in normal life are logical to different extents. I would argue that nothing in normal life is truly entirely logical. Later we will explore how things fail to be logical: because of emotions, or because there is too much data for us to process, or because too much data is missing, or because there is an element of randomness.”
― Eugenia Cheng, The Art of Logic in an Illogical World