Quotes About Logic

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

A gun is not an argument.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument.

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

The idea comes before the logical argument.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon

A tightly woven argument is impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.