Quotes About Validity

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

The present is a transitory existence which is made in order to be abolished: it retrieves itself only by transcending itself toward the permanence of future being; it is only as an instrument, as a means, it is only by it's efficacy with regard to the coming of the future that the present is validly realized: reduced to itself it is nothing , one may dispose of it as he pleases.

How, indeed, could the myth of Cinderella not keep all its validity? Everything still encourages the young girl to expect fortune and happiness from some Prince Charming rather than to attempt by herself their difficult and uncertain conquest.

Infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so that anyone who has not made this movement does not have faith; for only in infinite resignation does my eternal validity become transparent to me, and only then can there be talk of grasping existence on the strength of faith.

Just because I'm young, that doesn't mean I don't have a point.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Just because an interpretation is commonly held doesn't mean it's correct.

There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.

Her reasons were as valid now as they had been then, but it didn't stop her from blaming herself

This is not an act

They're all true. They all could have happened.

But when you begin with bullshit the conclusion you reach is still bullshit.

It is very difficult for a recipient of secret information to believe its validity when it does not conform to his preconceived plans or ideas; he believes what he wants to believe and rejects what does not verify what he already knows, or thinks he knows.

Reality is what you can count on.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Even if you are a minority of one it does not make you wrong

Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.

Just because a lot of people are saying the same thing loudly over and over, doesn't mean it's true.

The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.

This is another to be added to the many proofs that verisimilitude is not in the least an essential element of verity.

Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president.

They was told it too, perhaps. Does that make it true? Maybe. Maybe not.

She said, 'It's real, isn't it?' Lilian answered after a pause, with a bowed head, in a murmur. 'Yes, it's real. It's the only real thing.

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?