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nonliterate is not that he isn’t logical, but that he applies
logic too often, many times on the basis of insufficient
premises.
He generally assumes that events which are
associated together are causally connected. But this is a
fallacy which the majority of civilized people commit most
of the time, and it has been known to happen among
trained scientists! Nonliterates tend to adhere too rigidly
to the rule of association as causation, but most of the
time it works, and by the pragmatic rule what works is
taken to be true.
Nothing could be further from the truth than the
idea that nonliterates are utterly credulous, superstition-
and fear-ridden creatures, without any capacity or
opportunity for independent and original thought. In
addition to good horse sense, the nonliterate usually