Quotes About Reasoning

Knowing how to apply maxims cannot be reduced to, or derived from, the acceptance of those or any other maxims.

According to the legend, whenever an agent does anything intelligently, his act is preceded and steered by another internal act of considering a regulative proposition appropriate to his practical problem. But what makes him consider the one maxim which is appropriate rather than any of the thousands which are not?

Eighthly, concerning another line of reasoning, it is shewn that simple bodies of identical nature in innumerable diverse worlds have similar motion, and that merely arithmetical diversity causeth a difference of locality, each part having his own centre and being also referred to the common centre which cannot be sought within the universe.

Da un sacco di tempo tutti si affannano a cercare di capire il motivo della loro estinzione. Si chiedono perché questi animali che dominavano il mondo di colpo siano scomparsi. Forse fra tutte le spiegazioni la più valida è anche la più semplice. Forse sono morti perché sono impazziti tutti quanti. Proprio come noi. Ecco cosa siamo, nient'altro che dei piccoli dinosauri. E la nostra pazzia prima o poi sarà la causa della nostra fine.

não nos contentamos em fazer qualquer coisa, queremos igualmente justificá-la. O

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.

Years earlier, I might have scoffed, but I'd come to accept that, for Snowden's generation, they played no less serious a role in molding political consciousness, moral reasoning, and an understanding of one's place in the world than literature, television, and film. They, too, often present complex moral dilemmas and provoke contemplation, especially for people beginning to question what they've been taught.

Promoting the human capacity to reason and make decisions: that is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Ele é um homem de raciocinio, mas de raciocinio completamente comum; a sua compahia nao me entretem mais do que a leitura de um livro bem escrito

That's common sense Joe! And your tiny mind is not common!

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

Man no longer follows instinct with the old natural fidelity. He has developed into a reasoning creature, and can intellectually cling to life or discard life just as life happens to promise great pleasure or pain.

The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience. The metaphysician reasons from theory to facts, the scientist reasons from facts to theory. The metaphysician explains the universe by himself, the scientist explains himself by the universe.

The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience.

Childish and immaterial as the topic was, the quality of their reasoning was still more childish and immaterial. In truth, there was very little reasoning or none at all. Their method was one of assertion, assumption, and denunciation

Bir ?eyin neden oldu?u konusuna asla kafa yormad?. Nas?l oldu?u, ona yeterdi.

It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?

I believe it's called 'irrational reasoning.' It's what happens to people when they're scared

Never let fears get in the way of happiness, because fear can lead to such irrational reasoning, and we can make dreadful mistakes, saying things we can't take back.

A leader listens to the good reason closely to try and figure out what the real reason is, and then comes up with a solution.

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.