Quotes About Logic

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Science ... is organized common sense.

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.

For Philosophers: No, the computer doesn't "think". Unfortunately, there's no better word for what it really does. We say "think" on the grounds that it's all right to say, "the lamp needs a new light bulb." Whether the lamp really *needs* a bulb depends on whether it *needs* to provide light (that is, incandescence is its karma). So let's just say the computer thinks.)

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

With the Great Detective to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

There is a reason for all things and all things have a reason.

algorithms.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power...

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Hay?rseverliÄŸine hayran?m, diye konuÅŸtu Mary, Ama yine de bütün duygusal dürtüler mant?kla yönlendirilmelidir. Åžahsen fikrimi sorarsan; insan?n harcad??? her emek daima kendisinden talep edilenle doÄŸru orant?l? olmal?d?r.

Todo impulso del sentimiento debe estar dirigido por la razón, y a mi juicio, el esfuerzo debe ser proporcional a lo que se pretende - Mary

every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason.

but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Adding and Dividing Work Ancient people seem to have understood perfectly well that economic life is a matter of adding new goods and services. But instead of seeing the logic and order by which this happens, they saw magic. Important activities had been given to men or taught to men in remote times by gods; they had been stolen from gods; they had been brought along, like a trousseau, by demigod progenitors of people.

I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. "Killing is wrong." "We kill chickens," Mr. Wexler said. "We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers." It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

Here's the thing," Riley said. "I'm not really into diabolical possibilities. I'm more into logical explanations.

You're so logical," Glo said. "I would be exhausted if I had to think up all these explanations. It's so much easier to believe in magic.