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Will Wilkinson said the logician's work was a clever, circuitous exploration of Taoism that gave him much consolation and helped him think beyond logic.
Well, one of the books that's been really helpful to me is a book by a logician, Raymond Smullyan. It's not a new book. It's called The Tao Is Silent. And it's this really clever Jewish New York logic...
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Will Wilkinson said the logician's work was a clever, circuitous exploration of Taoism that gave him much consolation and helped him think beyond logic.
Well, one of the books that's been really helpful to me is a book by a logician, Raymond Smullyan. It's not a new book. It's called The Tao Is Silent. And it's this really clever Jewish New York logician who was a big deal in the 1970s doing his explanation of Taoism. And it's a delightful book because it's, you know, an incredibly logical person describing how something that can't be captured in logic, how that can help you. And it's circuitous and frustrating. And somehow he gets to something that I really have taken a lot of consolation in.