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A review by danyal_saeed
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Eugenia Cheng
4.0
To get an idea of what this book is about, there is a Royal Institution talk by Dr Eugenia Cheng. I believe if more people would understand basic logic and probability, and not just understand it in the sense of applying it in the classroom, but understand in the sense of believing that mathematics is truly the truth, and if they'd have a commitment to be accurate to a reasonable degree, we'd probably have less hate.
A very simple statement that the world seems to forget (or turn a blind eye to) these days: if all A are B, that does not mean that all B are A.
I do disagree with a few statements by Dr Cheng. An example that comes to mind is: if you think calling a man a woman is an insult, then you must think that women themselves are inferior to men. I don't think so. It's an insult because we are calling them something they are not. Just like this, calling a woman a man is also an insult. It's not about something being inferior to something else, it's about something not being something it is supposed to be.
A very simple statement that the world seems to forget (or turn a blind eye to) these days: if all A are B, that does not mean that all B are A.
I do disagree with a few statements by Dr Cheng. An example that comes to mind is: if you think calling a man a woman is an insult, then you must think that women themselves are inferior to men. I don't think so. It's an insult because we are calling them something they are not. Just like this, calling a woman a man is also an insult. It's not about something being inferior to something else, it's about something not being something it is supposed to be.