Quotes About Logic

The philosopher must argue for sense experience by appealing to sense experience. What choice does he have? If he appeals to something else as his final authority, he is simply being inconsistent. But this is the case with any basic commitment. When we are arguing on behalf of an absolute authority, then our final appeal must be to that authority and to no other. A proof of the primacy of reason must appeal to reason; a proof of the necessity of logic must appeal to logic;

Conscientious individuals are ruled by their heads. Emotions, urges, whims, or hungers do not often get the best of them.

Science is to be believed because it can be openly criticized. The criteria for belief is not authority nor logical necessity, but nobody has yet found a more convincing pattern of interpretation.

The achievement of late eighth-century scholars was to begin to understand certain of the logical doctrines developed in antiquity, and to bring these into a relation with theology which provided the stimulus for philosophical speculation.

philosophizing happened only because other activities offered the occasion or the stimulation for it. What were these activities? They appeared most prominently in the course of studying the standard curriculum of the seven liberal arts (especially logic), in religious controversy, and in trying to systematize theology.

No, that's being too logical! You're my best friends! I don't want to be that logical!" Neither did I, when I thought about it. "Ok, then" I said. "All for one and one for all. Let's go. The three musketeers.

People] will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other alternatives.

People] will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other altertives.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

Who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense - from "Progress and it's Sustainability

True existence is only defined by rationality.

The secret of being a good scientist, I believe, lies not in our brain power. We have enough. We simply need to look at reality and think logically and precisely about what we see. The key ingredient is to have the courage to face inconsistencies between what we see and deduce and the way things are done. This challenging of basic assumptions is essential to breakthroughs.

A propósito, el sentido común no es tan común, y el más alto elogio que podamos hacer de una cadena de conclusiones lógicas se llama «sentido común». Si hacemos esto, habremos sacado a la ciencia de su torre de marfil académica y la habremos colocado donde debe estar: al alcance de cada uno de nosotros, aplicable a lo que vemos a nuestro alrededor.

Science is simply the method we use to try and postulate a minimum set of assumptions that can explain, through a straightforward logical derivation, the existence of many phenomena of nature.

Incidentally, common sense is not so common and is the highest praise we give to a chain of logical conclusions.

Love shall never write its lasting characters on my mind, till my reason invites it: and where hopes rests not, reason cannot abide.

The best advice for fighting with a screwed-up person is simple: don't. You cannot be logical with an illogical person. The only way to win is to never, under any circumstances, get pulled into an argument. If you fight, you lose! Questioning choices questions integrity. Suggesting different ideas implies lack of intelligence. Seeking negotiation disputes power. Wanting compromise conveys weakness.

Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we're basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us. We'd at least, by then, developed the tech to fix our brains so we could accept emotionally what logic should have showed us.

Once you absorb the maths, it's all perfectly clear.

How could I ever love anything else, once having been loved of thee? I can't comprehend thy logic, Father of lies. Both ends against the middle. Like a two-headed serpent devouring itself. Christ. What canst thou hope maintain?" Lucifer smiled only and into the sadness of that smile Kit knew the answer. "Oh. For the love of God.

It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it.

If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Like all Holmes's reasoning the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained.