Quotes About Logic

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

My business is the analytical framework.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

The computer is a moron.

The danger is that executives will become contemptuous of information and stimulus that cannot be reduced to computer logic and computer language. Executives may become blind to everything that is perception (i.e., event) rather than fact (i.e., after the event). The tremendous amount of computer information may thus shut out access to reality.

There are several kinds of incongruity: – An incongruity between the economic realities of an industry (or of a public-service area); – An incongruity between the reality of an industry (or of a public-service area) and the assumptions about it; – An incongruity between the efforts of an industry (or a public-service area) and the values and expectations of its customers; – An internal incongruity within the rhythm or the logic of a process.

System 2 thinking tries to follow proper rules of reasoning

Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.

Not all the truths of faith can be proved by reason, but all arguments against the truths of faith can be disproved by reason.

T]o scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God (I-II,19,5).

To undo a contradiction, make a distinction.

Aristotle also believed that a vacuum was impossible.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.3

Intuition eludes the grasp of linear thinking, with its exclusive emphasis on cause and effect that are close in time and space. The result is that most of our intuitions don't make sense—that is, they can't be explained in terms of linear logic. Very