Quotes About Reasoning

Attempting to be neutral in one's intellectual endeavors (whether research, argumentation, reasoning, or teaching) is tantamount to striving to erase the antithesis between the Christian and the unbeliever.

The philosophy which Paul spurns is that reasoning which follows the presuppositions (the elementary assumptions) of the world, and thereby is "not according to Christ.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

The characteristics of the reasoning of crowds are the association of dissimilar things possessing a merely apparent connection between each other, and the immediate generalisation of particular cases. It is arguments of this kind that are always presented to crowds by those who know how to manage them.

Hebben de goden ons geen verstand gegeven om mee te denken en te oordelen?

The whole of his argument centers on this fact; having established that creation can contain God, and show us the path to God, Athanasius now uses the statement that man is a part of creation to argue that the Incarnation is reasonable, that God can be present in the person of the man Jesus.

Since Logic derives from postulates, it never has, and never will, change a postulate. And a religious belief is a system of postulates ... so how can a man fight a native superstition with logic? Or anything else ...?

In brief, through clever tests, the application of their backgrounds in decision theory and psychology, and the use of statistics, the two of them proved that our reasoning is imperfect, that we make errors in judgment, and that small differences in how information is presented can have a substantial effect on our reactions.

Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

Do you guys understand anything about best practices? I know you laugh at me because I follow procedures on everything, but those procedures were created for a reason.

Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.

I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.