Quotes About Reasoning

I deduce nothing: according to the rules of syllogism nihil sequitur geminis ex particularibus unquam, no law can be drawn from two single facts.

Adso —me dijo con impaciencia el maestro—, aprende a razonar con tu cabeza. —Después cambió de tema—: Ahora debemos interrogar a algunas personas. Al menos —añadió mientras exploraba la meseta con la mirada— mientras sigan vivas.

You act, and you know why you act, but you don't know why you know that you know what you do.

Mant???n evrensel bir silah olduÄŸuna inanm??t?m her zaman; ÅŸimdiyse mant???n geçerliÄŸinin onun nas?l kullan?ld???na baÄŸl? olduÄŸunun bilincine var?yordum.

Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false.

Querido Adso, no conviene multiplicar las explicaciones y las causas mientras no haya estricta necesidad de hacerlo.

Todo se explica utilizando menor número de causas.

Over many years bin Laden cited dozens of concocted reasons about why he attacked the United States; the only valid one was that he attacked America because he thought—to paraphrase Margaret Atwood—with good reason, he could get away with it.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

The slightest contact with logic makes all false arguments disintegrate.

Kata-kata keras dan pedas menunjukkan alasan yang lemah.

Once you start offering reasons for ignoring the interests of others, however, reasoning itself will usually draw you into a kind of universality. A reason is an offer of a ground for thinking or feeling or doing something. And it isn't a ground for me, unless it's a ground for you. If someone really thinks that some group of people genuinely doesn't matter at all, he will suppose they are outside the circle of those to whom justifications are due.

It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause from a certain viewpoint.

I know, Ezra, that I tend to be a bit impulsive at times, but it all seems so reasonable at the time I do these things, and so unreasonable when everyone looks back at what happened and what I did

I know, Ezra, that I tend to be a bit impulsive at times, but it all seems so reasonable at the time I do these things, and so unreasonable when everyone looks back at what happened and what I did." "Well,

To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.

Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart

While thinking, reasoning, and language abilities are desirable endpoints, children's immature development largely precludes their use as a medium of treatment.

La folla non ragiona mai. È sempre cieca. E può diventare un mostro che nessuno è in grado di fermare.»

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

A person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.