THE AXIOMS OF DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY

Logic 14

Factors introduced into a problem or solution which do not derive from natural law but only from authoritarian command aberrate that problem or solution.

Logic 15

The introduction of an arbitrary into a problem or solution invites the further introduction of arbitraries into problems and solutions.

Logic 16

An abstract postulate must be compared to the universe to which it applies and brought into the category of things which can be sensed, measured or experienced in that universe before such postulate can be considered workable.

Logic 17

Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.

Logic 18

A postulate is as valuable as it is workable.