Isaac Asimov || Foundation

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“Said Yate Fulham: “And just how do you arrive at that remarkable conclusion, Mr. Mayor?”

“In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much-neglected commodity - common sense. You see, there is a branch of human knowledge known as symbolic logic, which can be used to prune away all sorts of clogging deadwood that clutters up human language.”

“What about it?” said Fulham.

“I applied it. Among other things,”
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Excerpt From: Isaac Asimov, “Foundation.”