Quotes About Reasoning

I possess a strong sense of reason.

There's no controlling Billie - she's an authentic person. She's strong-willed and speaks her own mind, but she also listens to reason.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

People are entitled to their own opinions and what they believe in, but it's very hard when it's something that logically does not make sense; but talking about it is always good.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

But the picture of when we reason best that emerges from the research is far away from the classic image of rationality - the wise scholar alone in a study. Rather, we avoid error when we reason in groups - allowing the push and pull of argumentation to get us out of holes that we'd otherwise dig ourselves into.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Math Problem: What does Three take away Two equal? I can prove that Three take away Two equals Two. Don't believe me? OK, you have Three apples I take away Two apples, how many apples do I have?

Translogic: A comment or statement that sounds logical and makes sense at the time it is said but when later closely examined it actually makes no sense at all.

Un muro espeso comenzó a alzarse entre Alice Gould y su capacidad de razonar. "No puedo fijar mis ideas", se dijo. (...) Un oscuro sentimiento le impedía cruelmente alcanzar la meta de su razonamiento. Lanzaba con lucidez y fuerza su argumento hacia el frente y éste regresaba a ella como la pelota rebotada en un frontón.

Alice Gould consideró que ella era una mujer lógica para razonar mas no para sentir, y que las leyes que rigen las emociones nada tienen que ver con la sutileza de las ideas, el orden del pensamiento o el buen juicio.

The incompleteness theorem is a mathematical theorem precisely because the relevant notions of truth and provability are mathematically definable. Nonmathematical "Gödel sentences" and Liar sentences give rise to prolonged (or endless) discussions of just what is meant by a proof, by a true statement, by sound reasoning, by showing something to be true, by convincing oneself of something, by believing something, by a meaningful statement, and so on.

Grandmother thought for a moment, and then she said that superstitious was when you didn't try to explain things that couldn't be explained.

Clearly, when it comes to love, there is no reasoning it out, you just have to do as your heart compels you,

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

Man is a deeply illogical being, and must be ruled illogically. Whatever that frigid prig Bentham may say, there are innumerable motives that have nothing to do with utility.

It's exceedingly difficult to see how we move from a valueless series of causes and effects from the big bang onward, finally arriving at valuable, morally responsible, rights-bearing human beings. If we're just material beings produced by a material universe, then objective value or goodness (not to mention consciousness or reasoning powers or beauty or personhood) can't be accounted for.

Only fools and criminals didn't know why they did things.

A false dichotomy is considered a philosophical error, also called the "fallacy of the excluded middle," and falls in the category of the "false dilemma.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.