Quotes About Logic

You're arguing in a circle," I said. "In a spiral," said Lamiel, "which is the best way to argue.

Like you, my boy, I am a Scientific Humanist and feel no need for the aid of the supernatural.

Faptul ca un om a avut parte de o pregatire stiintifica nu inseamna neaparat ca el urmeaza sa aiba un comportament stiintific tot timpul.

Making the pictures ridiculous is what enables you to really see them; a logical picture is usually too vague.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Faith in the power of reason is the central pillar of the modern worldview.

This was a time when Movement poets such as Donald Davie, Elizabeth Jennings, John Wain, Philip Larkin, and Kingsley Amis dominated the post-war British poetry scene. Luke would later describe the Movement as "an expression of logic rather than myth, 'classical,' and esteemed principally as an instrument of stability." Hughes felt similarly. He associated the Movement poems with 'the post-war mood of having had enough.

Employing evolutionary logic is not exclusively about discovering our strengths; it is also about understanding our weaknesses and when to augment with modern solutions.

When you get rid of the impossible, what's left is the only answer, no matter how improbable.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Common sense is the heart of investing and business management.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

situarse en el ámbito del Sistema 2, pero ha de entenderse sobre todo como la capacidad para elaborar y convertir en argumentos persuasivos lo que esencialmente es Sistema 1.

Sometimes fear does the work of reason.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.

He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogging, plodding along on the heavy ground of existence. He did not see the connections, which is said to be the hallmark of intellect. He felt connections--like a plumber.

Maybe we should come to our opinions by using wisdom, logic, evidence, so much of those things that we know we are right and can't be swayed. Then we should hope for an argument against us that makes us think, "I could be wrong", and be willing to listen

the logic of life is continual change, continual motion, continual evolution.

Any feature of the world at a future time can be computed from the configuration of the present. That is, the passage of time can be replaced by a computation, which means that the future is logically a consequence of the present.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

There is nothing without reason.

There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.

Let there be two possible things, A and B, one of which is such that it is necessary that it exists, and let us assume that there is more perfection in A than in B. Then, at least, we can explain why A should exist rather than B and can foresee which of them will exist; indeed, this can be demonstrated, that is, rendered certain from the nature of the thing.