Quotes About Reasoning

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

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

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

Never Raise Your Voice.. Just Improve The Quality Of Your Argument..

People reasoning on essences may sometimes substitute certitude for probability, even very great probability. But we know nothing about essences and accordingly lose our certitude.

What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of "The Purloined Letter" successfully hides the letter from the police because he is both a poet and a mathematician. Dupin is able to find it because he too meets both conditions.

Man needs Scripture to give him the necessary premises to truly know and to correctly reason about God and reality. The foundation of Christian sanctification consists of knowing the propositions in the Bible, and reasoning correctly with them.

A rational way of thinking and knowing arrives at conclusions validly and necessarily deduced from true premises.

Man did not invent logic, but logic came from God, and we have some grasp of logic and perceive its necessity because God thinks in accordance with the principles of logic, and he has made us in his own image. God thinks in accordance with the principles of logic not because he is subservient to a set of rules that are higher than himself; rather, the principles of logic are descriptions of the way God thinks. They are descriptions of his rational nature.

There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it with great deal of drawing and not much colour, how not to do it with a great deal of colour and not much drawing.

Science - scientific reasoning - strikes me as being an instru-ment that will go a very long way in the future. For look: people used to think that the earth was flat. That was true, and still is today, of, say, Paris to Asnières. But that does not alter the fact that science demonstrates that the earth as a whole is round, something nobody nowadays disputes. For all that, people still persist in thinking that life is flat and runs from birth to death.

Reasoning required language, Descartes argued, and animal calls were only automatic sounds made in response to external stimuli. One of his followers, the philosopher Nicolas Malebranche, summarized the Descartian view: "[Animals] eat without pleasure, cry without pain, grow without knowing it; they desire nothing, fear nothing, know nothing.

Logic,' indeed!

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

we must go where the argument carries us, as a vessel runs before the wind.

The comprehensive mind is always dialectical.

Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors.

When [a man] thinks that he is reasoning he is really disputing, just because he cannot define and divide, and so know that of which he is speaking; and he will pursue a merely verbal opposition in the spirit of contention and not of fair discussion.

If you expect to stop denunciation of your wrong way of life by putting people to death, there is something amiss with your reasoning. This way of escape is neither possible nor creditable; the best and easiest way is not to stop the mouths of others, but to make yourselves as well behaved as possible. This is my last message to you who voted for my condemnation.

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