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In the past year, much of the population has bandied around the words logic and facts as if they know what they mean. In regards to facts , there are certain ideologies that we've constructed about our universe that we can all agree for the most part, as factual and true. Then there's the idea of facts being that which is declared as true by those who we choose to align ourselves with. But, I'm not wishing to speak of facts. Logic , I find, is an interesting subject, for most of us believe we employ logic in our everyday rationality of the world around us. Logic is "the science of distinction of true from false reasoning" [ Source ]. Scientists have given us a set of guidelines for obtaining logical conclusions to any hypothesis (personally, I think many confuse hypothesis with conclusive evidence in this day and age): Make an observation. Ask a question. Form a hypothesis or testable explanation. Make a prediction based on the hypothesis. Tes...