| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 10610 |
| QUOTATION: | “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898), British logician, author, humorist. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 4 (1865).
Logic is largely a matter of linguistic convention. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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