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Clear answers are given to important questions in both theoretical and applied logic. The writing is cogent and straightforward.

The 101 most important principles of formal logic are stated and illustrated. The basic principles of set-theory and formal arithmetic are also stated.

The theorems of the propositional calculus and the predicate calculus are stated, and the analogous principles of Boolean Algebra are identified. Also, the primary principles of modal logic are stated, and a procedure is described for identifying their Boolean analogues.

Governments inevitably get big, and a viable conception of government must tell us how a government should be when it gets big. Libertarianism doesn't tell us this, which is why the libertarian movement goes nowhere.

The distinction between neurosis and psychosis is discussed.

In this series of dialogues - clear, concise and cogent answers are given.

A compendium of some of Kuczynski's more readable work on philosophy, scientific methodology, and the theory of knowledge.

A dialogue about music and math.

A dialogue about Gregory Mankiw's 10 principles of economics.

The most important precepts of logic are stated.

Neuroses are secondary mental illnesses, it being their purpose to contain psychoses.

A dialogue about how not to write.

A dialogue about how to beat depression.

The 30 most important theorems of formal logic are stated and illustrated.

It is explained what emergent properties are, and it is shown on that basis that neither the existence nor the nature of the mental is to any degree explained by saying, as John Searle does, that "mind is an emergent property".

If you want to get somebody to change his mind, find underlying common ground, of either an emotional or logical ground, on the basis of which it can be made to seem to that person that it is incumbent on him, relative to his belief-set, to change his mind.

It is proved that there is unconscious mental activity.

Rape, sodomy, strangulation, stabbing, murder, and dismemberment. So were some of Joel David Rifkin's favorite "hobbies" that he inflicted on mostly drug addicted or alcoholic prostitutes from 1988 to 1993. Police finally caught up to Rifkin on June 28, 1993, when state troopers spotted him driving his pickup truck without license plates on the Southern State Parkway. A high-speed chase ended in Mineola, New York, when he crashed into a utility pole directly in front of the courthouse where he eventually stood trial.

Obsessive fears are unconscious desires. The woman who is obsessively afraid that her phone is tapped actually wants her phone to be tapped; that is, she wants someone to pay attention to her. A neurotic fear of such and such is actually an unconscious desire for such and such, this being the topic of this brutally honest exchange.

Original psychological observations.