Quotes About Analysis

If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone

What keeps me from seeking Catherine's help is that unlike other psychological problems, what happened to Amy, and to all of us, is real. The monster is real. And while there may be strategies that help Ginny and me feel a little better rather than a little worse, we will never feel right again. No analysis or therapy will change that.

Existe una diferencia esencial entre «tener ideas» y «someter estas ideas a prueba». Lo característico de los filósofos es comprobar las ideas, averiguar si poseen alguna coherencia y solidez o si encierran algún tipo de vicio de forma, o algún error que las haga inviables.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

The Text is not a definitive object.

A work has two levels of meaning: literal and concealed.

questioning existing knowledge through a critical inquiry into evidence and its reading.

History is not just a directory of information; it also involves analyzing and interpreting this information.

Religion as an ideology needs to be analyzed in all its dimensions, for, unless its political, social and economic dimensions are openly discussed, even if it is claimed that such discussion hurts sensibilities, there can be no real move away from dogma to humanism.

Taking a stance on an issue and supporting that stance with sound reasoning is an important skill. However, taking a stance on issues too quickly and rushing to defend

To diagnose a system or yourself while in the midst of action requires the ability to achieve some distance from those on-the-ground events. We use the metaphor of "getting on the balcony" above the "dance floor" to depict what it means to gain the distanced perspective you need to see what is really happening.

Maandag stierf hij, 102 jaar oud: Ronald Coase, de man die zijn afkeer van de wiskundige modellen in de economie aldus formuleerde: 'Als je de gegevens maar lang genoeg martelt, zullen ze toegeven'.

Critical thinking is not merely a negative activity. Its ultimate purpose is to cut through the crap and develop sound opinions that impel intelligent, effective action.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

The time has surely gone in which economists could analyze in great detail two individuals exchanging nuts for berries on the edge of the forest and then feel that their analysis of the process of exchange was complete, illuminating though this analysis may be in certain respects.

if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything

Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

But we dare not adopt our political philosophy uncritically from some non-Christian source. It must emerge from our normative biblical framework and our painstaking, extensive socioeconomic and political analysis.

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

I've known a good many sufferers from conviction mania … Of many different types … And in the last analysis, those who talk about justice seem to be the maddest of the lot!

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.