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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Lewis Carroll
Wisdom, Mathematical Logic, Ghouls
Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.