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1908 Nov 10
Logic
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appeals to your reason may turn out as important in the end.
The endowment constitutes what obese unwieldy intelligences call
"free-will," what Prince Siddártha came to know as as nirvána and
emancipation from existence, and what you call my icy, hard, and passionless temper of
criticism. I criticize your creation of me, and the whole method
of throwing philosophical discussion into the form of dialogue. For
a philosopher ought above all things to be sincere and to say just
what he means. Now a philosophical dialogue is always a
make-believe lower than play-acting. It is just a puppet-
show, in which Punch knocks Judy and the policeman and
all the rest of the wooden things over the head, and then makes
fun of all his lawless doings and of all his victims.
I. Well, well, there was plenty of latent heat in the cold steel.