Quotes About Reasoning

Aristotelian

persuasively, that

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.

Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.

the lack is not in intelligence, which is in plentiful supply; rather, the scarce commodity is systematic training in critical thinking.

Prejudice means literally pre-judgment, the rejection of a contention out of hand, before examining the evidence. Prejudice is the result of powerful emotions, not of sound reasoning.

The idea of science as a method rather than as a body of knowledge is not widely appreciated outside of science, or indeed in some corridors inside of science.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge

Perhaps for the first time in any medium, the person teaching you science—Carl Sagan—cared about the tangled mental roadways that can rob a person of rational thought.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

We must surrender our skepticism only in the face of rock-solid evidence. Science demands a tolerance for ambiguity.

What skeptical thinking boils down to is the means to construct, and to understand, a reasoned argument and—especially important—to recognize a fallacious or fraudulent argument. The question is not whether we like the conclusion that emerges out of a train of reasoning, but whether the conclusion follow from the premise or starting point and whether that premise is true

cuando hierve el fanatismo a nuestro alrededor, los hábitos de pensamiento familiares de épocas antiguas toman el control.

What she detested most was the absolute unselfconsciousness of her ego. It made no apologies, gave no quarter, and plunged on. It was unwholesome. She knew it would be impossible to tear it out, root and branch. She would have to work on it patiently, reason with it, distract it, maybe even threaten it.

Uma marca infalível do amor à verdade", escreveu John Locke em 1690, "é não considerar nenhuma proposição com uma convicção maior do que a autorizada pelas provas em que se fundamenta.

the credibility is a consequence of the method.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Our psychological predispositions pros or cons must not misleads us. All that matters is the evidence, and the evident is not in.

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Uno de los grandes mandamientos de la ciencia es: «Desconfía de los argumentos que proceden de la autoridad».

This is one of the fallacies in the baloney detection kit, the enumeration of favorable circumstances. We