Whereof one cannot speak…
What exactly is the triumph of sound reason? When deductive reasoning is utilized in an argument, no matter how absurd the outcome, if the postulate is accepted and the reasoning is sound then the conclusion is true. Period. If one does not like the conclusion to the argument but accepts the premise, then he will find himself in a complex state of cognitive dissonance between a desire to follow logic and a desire to maintain current beliefs while simultaneously being unable to say anything against the argument. This is the triumph of sound reason: its ability to find potentially infuriatingly uncomfortable truths that can be answered by only silence. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."-Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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