Quotes About Logic

Together, creeping determinism and sampling bias lead commonsense explanations to suffer from what is called the post-hoc fallacy.

Common sense, in other words, is not so much a worldview as a grab bag of logically inconsistent, often contradictory beliefs, each of which seems right at the time but carries no guarantee of being right any other time.

The message of the previous three chapters is that commonsense explanations are often characterized by circular reasoning.

The result is that we are tempted to infer a cause-and-effect relationship when all we have witnessed is a sequence of events. This is the post-hoc fallacy.

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

The person of faith cannot accept reason as the arbiter of truth without giving up on faith...

A mind that moves associatively (as my mind does and probably your mind too) like a firefly in a grassy yard on a late June evening, has more fun (and other things too, of course, like static, like trouble) than a mind that moves logically or even chronologically.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.