Quotes About Conclusion

The end of a novel, like the end of children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum

CHAPTER XLIX MISS TREFOIL'S DECISION

CHAPTER LXX AT LAST

CHAPTER LXXX CONCLUSION

CHAPTER XLV LORD RUFFORD MAKES UP HIS MIND

Tal vez lo bueno de los abismos sea- concluyó la abuela- que se pueden hacer puentes para cruzarlos.

In a practical syllogism, the major premise is an opinion, while the minor premise deals with particular things, which are the province of perception. Now when the two premises are combined, just as in theoretic reasoning the mind is compelled to affirm the resulting conclusion, so in the case of practical premises you are forced at once to do it.

But all voyages come to an end, either at the shore or at the bottom of the sea

The ideal reasoner would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it.

I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

Then, how do you know?" "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and careless servant girl?" "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago.

I have seen too much not to know that the impressions of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (p. 261).

I must really apologize, Hopkins," said Sherlock Holmes. "I fear that the scrambled eggs are cold. However, you will enjoy the rest of your breakfast all the better, will you not, for the thought that you have brought your case to a triumphant conclusion.

Eliminato l'impossibile ció che resta, per improbabile che sia, deve essere la veritá

Man or woman?" I asked. "Oh, man, of course. No woman would ever send a reply-paid telegram. She would have come.

fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.

Remember, this--this is the end we have waited for so long.

Uma técnica bem comum de distorção onírica consiste em representar o resultado de um acontecimento ou a conclusão de uma cadeia de pensamento no início de um sonho e em colocar em seu final as premissas nas quais se basearam a conclusão ou as causas que levaram ao acontecimento.

An argument is valid when there is no way—meaning no possible way—that the premises, or starting points, could be true without the conclusion being true

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.