Quotes About Logic

After fifteen years of trying other solutions, there was no alternative. The logic of Alliance thinking dictated a third party. And that is what emerged. The Populist Party was born on July 4, 1892, in Omaha, Nebraska, with Alliance members and thinking at its heart.

First law of an argument: those who remain reasonable will make others seem unreasonable.

You are to imagine a Realworld room with three light bulbs in it. Outside the room are three electric switches. You may only enter the room once, and you may only have one switch on when you enter the room. How can you work out which switch operates which light?

The one possibility that Sanders tended to discount entirely was a landing at Gallipoli's southern tip, simply because the most basic rules of military logic—even mere common sense—argued against it.

A final objection to relativism is the charge that its central premise, namely that moral absolutes do not exist, is a self-defeating statement, since the premise itself is an absolute.

The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they're wrong... Until they come face to face with someone who is tenacious enough to dissect their logic, and resilient enough to endure the thinly veiled intellectual abuse they dish out during debate, they're never forced to question their ability to defend bad ideas.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

It makes logical sense that 168 is a greater number than 17, so why would you shelve 168 first? Because a librarian is always right. To the common man, this looks wrong, but to the librarian, this is right, because a librarian is never wrong.

Religion by its very principle is not always logical; in essence, faith is believing in something you cannot understand with rational thought.

when our thinking is informed by diverse logically consistent, empirically validated frames, we are more likely to make wise choices.

there's no talking sense to sentiment

You refused to believe that I preserved your life in Tal Verrar for reasons of conscience. Now I give you the self-interested motive you previously insisted upon, and you refuse to believe it as well. Are you really that arrogant, that logic is as optional as a fashion accessory for you?

Q: Why didn't 4 like 5? A: Because he was odd.

Fear arises from a weakness of mind and therefore does not appertain to the use of reason. —BARUCH SPINOZA (CIRCA 1670)

The world is not magic — and that's the most magical thing about it.

That's how science works. We don't "prove" results like we can in mathematics or logic; we simply add to their plausibility by accumulating more and more evidence.

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Man is the reasoning animal. Such is the claim.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.