Quotes About Logic

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

While I might not have a specific experience that is fully American, there is still a knowledge, something that I logically understand as a black woman and a black woman who is existing in America and a black woman who is in the diaspora that are just known quantities that I think anyone can relate to who is black.

For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.

For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

Globally, we need to make sure that markets are open... If we see that there are restrictions on free trade, then simple economic logic will demonstrate that this is not beneficial.

It's perfectly logical,' said Dr Snyder. 'It's absolutely proved. You can't lie.' 'But I can,' said the Martian. 'Work on the logic of that a while, Mack.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

The voice of the Socratic dream vision is the only sign of any misgivings about the limits of logic: Perhaps – thus he might have asked himself – what is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent? Perhaps there is a realm of wisdom from which the logician is exiled? Perhaps art is even a necessary correlative of, and supplement for science?

Are the axioms of logic adequate to reality or are they a means and measure for us to create reality, the concept "reality", for ourselves?

synthetic judgments a priori should not be possible at all; we have no right to them; in our mouths they are nothing but false judgments.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause:

There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.

A culture based on the principle of science must perish once it begins to become illogical, i.e. to turn and flee its own consequences.

We see that science also rests on faith; there is simply no science without presuppositions

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

The assumption that numbers and mathematical or logical laws are mental is due to the even more widespread notion that only particular sensible entities exist in nature, and that relations abstractions, or universals cannot have any such objective existence - hence they are given a shadowy existence in the mind.