Quotes About Deduction

Organisations find no rationale to increase the salary of the employees, but get often reasons to deduct some amount from it under one or the other pretext.

All proofs rest on premises.

"Excellent!" I [Watson] cried."Elementary," said he [Holmes].

You know my methods, Watson.

It is quite a three-pipe problem.

In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

devote what time I may still have to live to no other occupation than that of endeavoring to acquire some knowledge of Nature, which shall be of such a kind as to enable us there from to deduce rules in medicine of greater certainty than those in present use.

Modern science has arrived at its conclusions through mathematical deduction. Religion has arrived at its conclusions through belief. But the yogi is a hard nut who will not settle for deduction or belief. He or she seeks to experience the ultimate through the enhancement of individual perception. Consequently, the yogic tradition does not mention God, or deny it either.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Here is my lens. You know my methods.

A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

LOGIC The principle governing human intellection. Its nature may be deduced from examining the following propositions, both of which are held by human beings to be true and often by the same people: I cant so you musnt, and I can but you musnt.

There are some Men of one, some but of two Syllogisms, and no more; and others that can but advance one step farther.

The secret of being a good scientist, I believe, lies not in our brain power. We have enough. We simply need to look at reality and think logically and precisely about what we see. The key ingredient is to have the courage to face inconsistencies between what we see and deduce and the way things are done. This challenging of basic assumptions is essential to breakthroughs.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

The classic deductive inference (actually taken from Aristotle's Categories) is "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal." Usually a good deductive inference goes from greater generalities to lesser ones:

Not everything that makes deductive sense may be true.b But if it doesn't fit into a syllogism, Aristotle concluded, then don't bother asking if it's true or not.

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

The National Multifamily Housing Council, a trade association of apartment owners, managers, developers and lenders, has come to the defense of the interest deduction and other provisions favorable to the real estate industry, describing them as 'core principles' and promising a fight.