Quotes About Deduction

I guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two.

Results in the real world came from slow, dogged work, compiling facts and building conclusions and deductions based on those facts. And a little luck never hurt either. A

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

Privilege escalation is akin to freedom, and since I've deduced equality to be irrelevant, winning with no debt is what freedom is all about.

Perhaps Dexter's dutiful but uninspired brain pictured him as Sherlock Holmes, able to examine the wheel ruts and deduce that a left-handed hunchback with red hair and a limp had gone down the road carrying a Cuban cigar and a ukulele. I would find no clues, not that it mattered.

This was not even a matter of putting two and two together; it was looking at four.

All right, then: Taking the ipso facto as prima facie, it stood to reason that if I was not a pedophile, I was also not a murderer. Quad erat demonstrandum.

I'm fine, Kate said. In fact, since my last two dates were so awful, things can only get better. Bad deduction, Jessie said. If that were true, I'd be dating Harrison Ford by now.

When you have excluded the impossible, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth

System 2 thinking tries to follow proper rules of reasoning

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

There is a] growing conviction that quantum mechanics is at root a theory not of tiny particles and waves but of information and its causative influence. It's a theory of how much we can deduce about the world by looking at it, and how that depends on intimate, invisible connections between here and there.

He'd paid all his taxes, so that left … you guessed it.

like we're hanging on your every brilliant deduction.

Sherlock Holmes and his trusty associate Watson were on a camping trip. They had gone to bed and were lying there looking up at the sky. Holmes said, "Watson, look up and tell me what you see." "Well, I see thousands of stars," he replied. "And what does that tell you?" asked Holmes. "I guess it means we're going to have another nice day tomorrow. What does it mean to you?" "To me, it means that someone has stolen our tent.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

Sometimes I implant thoughts, sometimes I extract thoughts, but I don't like to explain it too much. It's based on science, deduction, and reasoning - it's a bit like what 'Sherlock' does, except that's a dramatised version. I look at every clue around me.

Conclusions were necessary and she had come up with them.

If a doctor has worked through the problem well, there's a very good chance that one of these possible diagnoses will be right. The rest though, by definition, will be wrong. We are regularly wrong in the pursuit of being right. … The question we are taught to ask ourselves is, if it isn't that, what else could it be?

I look at things and think about them,' Folly replied. 'And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply.

HOW CAN YOU KNOW THIS?" the Voice demanded. "I look at things and think about them," Folly replied. "And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply.

Investigating is a process of elimination. You have to explore all the possibilities, and whatever's left, no matter how implausible, has got to be it.

A rational way of thinking and knowing arrives at conclusions validly and necessarily deduced from true premises.