Quotes About Logic

All deliberate change comes first from denying the logic that earlier gave you comfort.

Of two or more competing theories, the simpler theory is most likely correct.

The idea that life and consciousness was bestowed on us by a God whose brilliance accounts for the entire universe—but possesses the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old—is shockingly illogical.

You can't negate negation so how can being be?

Aristotle defined a first principle as "the first basis from which a thing is known." First principles thinking is therefore the art of breaking a problem down to the fundamental parts that you know are true and building up from there.

Symbolic AI takes human-readable observations about the world and builds them into an expert system that allows a computer to make deductions and decisions.

Reason is not what decides love.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

What do I believe? I believe that two and two make four, Sganarelle, and that four and four are eight.

But reason does not govern love.

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

All mathematical proofs must be deductive. Each proof is a chain of deductive arguments, each of which has its premises and conclusion.

Even the greatest Greek algebraist, Diophantus, who lived during the latter part of the Alexandrian Greek civilization (around A.D. 250), rejected irrationals as numbers.

predecessor of Isaac Newton at Cambridge University, maintained that irrational numbers have no meaning independent of geometric lengths.

same phenomenon and concludes that the phenomenon will always occur. Conclusions obtained by induction seem well warranted

irrational number cannot equal a whole number or a fraction.

Can we combine ?2 + ?3 into the simpler ?5? Let us test this operation on whole numbers expressed as roots. Certainly ?9 + ?16 does not equal , that is, 3 + 4 does not equal 5. Hence we should not assert the analogous relation for irrational numbers.

Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

He is no mean poet, and his verse can rouse or persuade even if his logic fail to convince. His message is not for the Mohammedans of India alone, but for Moslems everywhere: accordingly he writes in Persian instead of Hindustani—a happy choice, for amongst educated Moslems there are many familiar with Persian literature, while the Persian language is singularly well adapted to express philosophical ideas in a style at once elevated and charming.

All our thinking becomes a mechanized formality of robotic consciousness. The technologization of logic, the improvement of the details of thinking due to the instincts that money controls.

An aphorism is a neuro-argument. Science psychology culture and philosophy must have neuro-evidence.

An art critic and a psychologist are very similar to each other, they both look for insanity in abstraction, a grain of logic.