Wizard's Ninth Rule
The Wizard's Ninth Rule, revealed in Chainfire, is:
A contradiction cannot exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole. —Chapter 48, p. 489, U.S. hardcover editionIt is explained in the novel as follows: "To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in the existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy - to imagine something is real simply because you wish it were. A thing is what it is, it is itself. There can be no contradictions. In reality, contradictions cannot exist. To believe in them you must abandon the most important thing you possess: your rational mind. The wager for such a bargain is your life. In such an exchange, you always lose what you have at stake."
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