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• The product of an arithmetical computation is the answer to an equatio
  it is not the solution to a problem. -- G. O. Ashley...
• Numbers are tools, not rules. -- G. O. Ashley
• Numbers are symbols for things; the number and the thing are not the same. -- G. O. Ashley
• Skill in manipulating numbers is a talent, not evidence of divine guidance. -- G. O. Ashley
• Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
  ... Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio. -- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)...
• Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.
  -- G. O. Ashley...
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  ! `___! /___ I didn't do it, !...
• LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
  The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion -- thu...