Quotes About Validity

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

They're only words, unless they're true.

Why is my perception right? If it is wrong, then what is right?

Oh yes. I am right until I'm proved wrong.

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.

Duration is not a test of true or false.

the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. " ? Will Rogers

Acts of parliament that are impossible to be performed are of no validity; and if there arise out of them collaterally any absurd consequences, manifestly contradictory to common reason, they are, with regard to those collateral consequences, void.

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Truth is what works.

Oye, todo es verdad — replicó Francis —. Todo cuanto te pasa por la imaginación, aunque apeste a chorrada, es verdad.

Something is objective if it is independent of people's opinions. If it holds or is true independently of what anybody thinks then it is objective. It is subjective if it is dependent upon people's opinions.

Reductio ad absurdum, or reduction to absurdity, is a form of argument that proves a statement by demonstrating that its opposite is absurd.

A good argument must obey the rules of logic; express true premises; and have premises more plausible than their opposites.

But these abnormal emotions feel just as valid and realistic as the genuine feelings created by undistorted thoughts, so you automatically attribute truth to them. This is why depression is such a powerful form of mental black magic.