Quotes About Logic

Because the construction of meaning requires many kinds of integration networks in addition to simplex networks, a great deal of semantics falls outside the realm of symbolic logic.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

So we are led back to the neutral ground on which Parmenides had placed himself, a ground where reason and truth about nature were one and the same.

Real problems follow upon each other in a way which makes sense to the intellectual imagination.

the line of mathematical imagination and that of philological critique seem to have faced each other in mutual incomprehension through the centuries

antilogías y paradojas, y el recurso a una lógica no lineal y no ordinaria, se estudian y experimentan de manera sistemática como eficaces instrumentos de comunicación.

Life to be bearable must be lived intensely. Through it a continuous stream of emotion passes. Though that emotion is ever changing as flowing water changes, it at least bears us along on a current that gives the illusion of continuity and permanence. But analyze life, tear its trappings off, lay it bare with thought, with logic, with philosophy, and its emptiness is revealed as a bottomless pit; its nothingness frankly confesses to nothingness, and Despair comes to perch in the soul.

La realtà può permettersi ogni stranezza: la fantasia no.

Il Destino, che è un regista alla ricerca di facili effetti, piuttosto di sacrificare una battuta sicura, preferisce sacrificare la logica degli eventi. Per questo il nostro pianeta è squinternato ma divertente.

Era anche troppo facile pensare che fosse quella l'arma che aveva ucciso monna Vana, troppo facile. Ma d'altra parte non erano i maestri di Francia, i filosofi che tenevano lezione nel vicolo degli Strami a Parigi, a insegnarci che la causa semplice è regina sulla causa complessa? E che la Natura, oltre che del vuoto, ha parimenti orrore dell'inutile complessità?

I've never understood the logic that says a work doesn't need to be judged on the quality of its writing or characters simply because its genre. On the other hand, I've also never understood the logic of excusing a work from the need to tell a story worth telling about people worth knowing simply because the author writes pretty language or has some insights to offer.

She'd give him time, then logic. Men's minds were like wooden axles. Now and then they needed grease.

The result of preventing failure in a country rooted in freedom is a country that is no longer rooted in logic.

Later on, we'll address how imprints from the early years can be rewired, not through logic and words, but through strategies involving imagery, emotions, and body-based skills.

In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an idea for theorists and logicians: if women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? I leave further improvisation up to you.)

That's common sense Joe! And your tiny mind is not common!

Angels will not disintegrate with logic, but they are more likely to fly for those who believe.

Common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden.

There is no such thing as sentimental nonsense, for there is no nonsensical sentiment.

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

You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong—to his own satisfaction.

The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience.

There is too much knowledge already in the world; we use facts as crutches, logic is deceit. I know a single system of communication: the declaiming of poetry.

the word algorithm was derived from al Khwarizm