[KarlInOhio]

As a boy, I read Isaac Asimov’s science fiction classic “Foundation” series that featured psychohistory and symbolic logic. I was fascinated by how the Foundation applied symbolic logic to political documents and treaties to interpret what was really being said.

One of my favorite quotes from Foundation applied to that very topic:

“The analysis was the most difficult of the three by all odds. When Holk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications - in short, all the goo and dribble - he found he had nothing left. Everything cancelled out.

Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.” ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

Although now I would expect that the true, distilled meaning of a typical politician's speeches is not nothing but rather the exact opposite of what the words originally seem to mean.

[Dick Bachert]

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