Quotes About Deduction

The problem of induction is the problem of how an argument can be good reasoning as induction but be poor reasoning as a deduction.

Police work is a question of piecing together tentative solutions. We have to make the gaps speak and the pieces tell us about things that have hidden meanings. We have to try to see through the events, turn them on their heads in order to set them on their feet.

I look at the idea of eliminating the state and local tax deduction as a geographic redistribution of wealth, because you're taking money from a place like New York to provide deeper tax cuts elsewhere.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

No matter how you slice it, limiting the SALT deduction forces New Jersey families to spend even more to subsidize Americans in less economically productive states, which take more than they ever give back to the federal government.

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

The necessity of reform mustn't be allowed to become a form of blackmail serving to limit, reduce, or halt the exercise of criticism. Under no circumstance should one pay attention to those who tell one Don't criticize, since you are not capable of carrying out a reform. that's ministerial cabinet talk. Critique doesn't have to be the premise of a deduction that concludes, this then is what needs to be done. It should be an instrument of those who fight, who resist and refuse what is...

All his life, Sherlock Holmes had believed that when one had eliminated the impossible, whatever remained —however improbable— must be the truth. Now he understood that when the impossible was too intractable to be eliminated, one had to revise one's opinion of the limits of the possible.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

The footprints go this way, said Cuddy, and then they return. But the ones coming back aren't so deep as the ones going. You can see they're later ones because they're over the top of the other ones. So he was heavier than he was coming back, yes? Right, said Detritus. So that means...? He lose weight?

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right.

once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how unlikely, must be the truth.

There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in principle be refuted, by falsifying some of the conclusions which can be deduced from them.

The best testers were masters at deducing the chain of events leading to a failure. They provided code writers with a virtual road map to fix their bug. The worst testers offered little more than a description of the hangup and a half-baked hypothesis of the cause. Manheim

The best testers were masters at deducing the chain of events leading to a failure. They provided code writers with a virtual road map to fix their bug.

It (proof by contradiction) is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

More broadly, formal logic of the sort we have been talking about does only one thing well: it allows us to take knowledge of which we are certain and apply rules that are always valid to deduce new knowledge of which we are also certain.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

She can tell you the height of the attacker from the trigonometry of the blood spatter, while I'm fuzzy on what trigonometry is.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.

În definitiv, s? nu uit?m ce spunea Sherlock Holmes:"Când ai eliminat imposibilul, orice r?mâne, oricât de imposibil ar p?rea, trebuie s? fie adev?rul". De?i, judecând dup? ferocitatea cu care un alt eminent filozof modern a fost atacat de criticii s?i, n-ai b?nui asta.