Quotes About Logic

In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

In fact, however, Calvin regarded predestination as logically inescapable but otherwise beyond human understanding and in practical terms not of great importance.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Bands such as LiLiPUT and Essential Logic were just as unorthodox as Gang of Four or Wire, even taking their sounds a step further with shrieking vocals and saxophone.

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic of dreamwork can suture 'War' with 'Terror' in this way, since terrorists were, by classical definition, those without 'legitimate authority' to wage war.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

While exceptional employees don't seek conflict, they don't run away from it either. They're able to maintain their composure while presenting their positions calmly and logically. They're able to withstand personal attacks in pursuit of the greater goal and never use that tactic themselves.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Mathematicians always hoped their field was the one human endeavor where reason would prevail over woke madness. But no such luck. The Mathematical Association of America has succumbed.