Should we trust academia?
Preface
Augustus De Morgan wrote in A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I, “Modern discoveries have not been made by large collections of facts, with subsequent discussion, separation, and resulting deduction of a truth thus rendered perceptible. A few facts have suggested an hypothesis, which means a supposition, proper to explain them.” (De Morgan 1872) De Morgan was a British mathematician famous for De Morgan’s laws in logic and set theory and for coining the term mathematical induction.
When he authored this book, he used an old meaning of the word paradox. He explains this in the introduction: “I use the word in the old sense: a paradox is something which is apart from general opinion, either in subject-matter, method, or conclusion.”