DIDIK.com DIDIK® is a registered trademark Contact Frank Didik at: inquiry [at] didik.com   (Brooklyn, New York City, USA) Random thoughts by Frank Didik on science, business and society today   Return to Main Page   On Philosophy Reason, Logic and intellect is not reliable. The late Christopher Hitchens often stated that we should rely on our logic, reason and intellect to determine the truth. Many people who pride themselves as educated, intelligent and progressive believe the same. As reasonable as this sounds, Galleleo proved over 400 years ago that our logic, reason and intellect is unreliable and that only direct experimental data, should be relied upon. Galileo had dropped two balls of the same material, but different masses, from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate that they would hit the ground at the same time, rather than the heavier ball hitting the ground first, as almost everyone, including Aristotle, 2000 years ago, had assumed. Our logic, reason and intellect is not reliable and should only be viewed as speculation. Only direct experimentation and obtaining the same results, over and over again should be relied upon. ---Frank X. Didik November 2015       CONTACT Frank Didik: . (Brooklyn, New York City, USA) www.DIDIK.com Copyright© 1989 - 2015 by Frank X. Didik, All Rights Reserved DIDIK® is a registered Trademark at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This page is from November 12, 2015, though is based on thoughts by Frank Didik dating back many years.