"The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere, and which are of course not to be in any way confused with the artificial laws of a country, which are invented by men and can be altered by them."
William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)
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Wonderful quote! In his 1916 book Thinking as a Science, Henry Hazlitt appropriately referred to this passage as found in Jevons' 1870 book Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive. Both books worth the time and effort to read.
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