Quotes About Validity

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.

Bir cümle bir öncekini, hakiki olmad???n? öne sürerek geçersiz k?larken, kendi de bir sonraki cümle taraf?ndan yalanlanmak üzeredir.

Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.

People should know that the idea of legal fakes is a complete farce. It would be sad if a new generation thinks that's actually legit.

Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper.

authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can't be met, the authority in question should be dismantled.

The term physical is just kinda like an honorific word, kinda like the word 'real' when we say 'the real truth'. It doesn't add anything, it just says 'this is serious truth'. So to say that something is 'physical' today just means 'you gotta take this seriously'.

El poder es siempre ilegítimo, hasta que demuestre lo contrario.

Truth is transcultural; if something is true, it is true for all people, in all places, at all times (2+2=4 for everyone, everywhere, at every time).

The Law of Noncontradiction is a self-evident first principle of thought that says contradictory claims cannot both be true at the same time in the same sense.

Law of Noncontradiction.

We live in an age where virtually no content is lost and virtually all content is shared. The sheer amount of information about every current idea makes those concepts difficult to contradict, particularly in a framework where public consensus has become the ultimate arbiter of validity. In other words, we're starting to behave as if we've reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the sensation of certitude it generates is paralyzing.

I don't need to personally agree with something in order to recognize that it's true.

Just because someone tells you in a reasonable way that you aren't really feeling what you're feeling, it doesn't make the feeling go away.

But reality soon asserted itself.

Every people had a story of how the world had come about, the boss said, and every one was as valid as the next and just about as true.

Opinion is worth nothing. Where is your evidence?" (Atalanta Worthington)

It was as true… as turnips is. It was as true… as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

Pleasure, remember, is among other things the feeling we get from satisfying a need. The more powerful the need, the greater the pleasure. To follow this principle requires, first, accepting that our needs are valid and even beautiful. And not just our needs, but our desires as well, coming as they do from unmet needs.

to know that an inference is deductively valid is to know that there are no situations in which the premisses are true and the conclusion is not.

Every testimony is valid because there is someone out there a lot like you.