Logic Mazes
Abbott is the inventor of a style of maze called logic mazes. A logic maze has a set of rules, ranging from basic such as "You cannot make left turns," to extremely complicated. These mazes are also called "Multi-State mazes". The reason for this name is that sometimes you can return to a position you were in before, but be traveling in a different direction. That change in direction can put you in a different state and open up different choices for you. One example, from the book SuperMazes, would be a rolling-die maze. Where you can move from a particular square depends on what number is facing up on the die. If you return to that same square, the die may be in a different state, with a different number on top. Thus, you would have different options than the first time.
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“Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.”
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Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate,
Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,
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