Quotes About Logic

I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

Life is too complicated and, as far as we can understand it in our present state of knowledge, too illogical, for it to be confined within the four corners of a fixed doctrine. The

An employer's decision-making process is less rational than you might think.

La retórica es el arte de la influencia, la amistad y la elocuencia, del ingenio y la lógica irrefutable. Y emplea la más poderosa de las fuerzas sociales: la argumentación.

if the two of you are alone, walk away. If you have an audience, consider throwing the fallacy back at your opponent. "I see. Purple is a fruit. So, since your skin is tan, that makes you a pair of khakis.

The ancient Romans would call the Ironman's brand appeal argumentum a fortiori, "argument from strength." Its logic goes like this: if something works the hard way, it's more likely to work the easy way. Advertisers favor the argument from strength. Years ago, Life cereal ran an ad with little Mikey the fussy eater. His two older brothers tested the cereal on him, figuring that if Mikey liked it, anybody would. And he liked it! An argumentum a fortiori cereal ad.

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while logic is excellent and noble, and a first-rate way to make a friend look like a drooling idiot, a perfectly logical argument fails to persuade most of the time.

Verás cuándo funciona mejor la lógica y cuándo deberías apoyarte en una estrategia emocional.

Seduction is manipulation, manipulation is half of argument, and therefore many of us shy from it. But seduction offers more than just consensual sex. It can bring you consensus. Even Aristotle, that logical old soul, believed in the curative powers of seduction. Logic alone will rarely get people to do anything. They have to desire the act. You may not like seduction's manipulative aspects; still, it beats fighting, which is what we usually mistake for an argument.

Rhetoric has a name for debating that seeks to win points: eristic.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyse, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.

what the play is about Supertask Break the play down into its component parts Bits Decide what each actor has to do in each of the component parts, what does he want or need Tasks Decide on what he does to fulfil that need Actions Check whether the sequence of needs and actions is logical and coherent and

No, a proof is a proof...

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

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Inima î?i avea ra?iunile ei, ?i ra?iunea le cuno?tea.

Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

Logic is the mirror of thought, and not vice versa;in classes, relations et nombres; essai sur les groupements de logistique et la réversibilitié de lq pensée

Every psychological explanation comes sooner or later to lean either on biology or on logic (or on sociology, but this in turn leads to the same alternatives).

Piaget's work shows that our concepts of logic, space, time, number, quantity, etc., are not given readymade as Kant thought, but undergo a process of development.

To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.

Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente y optimismo desafiante para encarar al futuro.