Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press. Yes God, God, God don't never do.

Welcome to the Plodcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. This is episode 2.30 in the

podcast. Here we are. So what I want to talk about today is why censorship matters. Why censorship matters.

In order to reason properly in the world about the world, you need two things.

You need to know the laws of right reason.

You need to know that it's inappropriate to argue that wet streets cause rain.

No, it goes the other way.

Rain causes wet streets.

You need to understand the structure of logic and you need to understand the structure of logic and you need to understand the structure of logic when it comes to things like p's and cues.

So if you argue if p, then Q,

P, therefore Q, that is valid.

Now, validity means that if the things that you fill up the p's and cues with are true, then the conclusion will necessarily be true.

The structure is solid, the structure of the argument is sound.

Okay?

But if the premises are false, then the conclusion could well be false.

If I said all dogs are space aliens, all dogs are space aliens that if

P then Q. Fido here is a dog P. Therefore Fido is a space alien.

Well, that, that conclusion is necessarily true, if the premise is true.

If the premise is true that all dogs are space aliens, then it follows that Fido here is also a space alien.

That's structurally sound. That's one thing that you need. You need to know how to reason structurally.

You also need to know that if P then Q, Q, therefore P, is an invalid form of reasoning.

If I study hard, then I will pass this test. I pass this test. Therefore I must have

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