Quotes About Reasoning

We have hearing aids in order to fix our ears. We have lasik surgery in order to fix our eyes. People ... you can't fix stupid!

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every time you make a choice in life you're cheating.

Information game into the universe when the first hominids began to justify their actions to one another by making assertions and backing those assertions up with further assertions.

Information came into the universe when the first hominids began to justify their actions to one another by making assertions and backing those assertions up with further assertions.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

There can never be surprises in logic.

Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

What people accept as justification shows how they think and live.

Mathematical logic has completely deformed the thinking of mathematicians and philosophers.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A

Philosophieren ist: falsche Argumente zurückweisen.

A certeza é por assim dizer um tom de voz em que alguém declara como são as coisas, mas não se infere desse tom que tem razão.

Don't treat your common sense like an umbrella. When you come into a room to philosophize, don't leave it outside but bring it in with you.

We say of a proof that it convinces us of a logical law.—But of course a proof starts somewhere. And the point is: What convinces us of the primitive propositions on which the proof is based? Here there is no proof.

Mathematics is a method of logic.

For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers;

For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

daí a alegação de que não havia regra para a completa sanidade mental.

Fear and threat also literally shunt energy away from the areas of the brain involved in self-control and abstract reasoning—the exact opposite of what you want when you are trying to teach someone new ways of thinking and acting.

general intelligence and practical intelligence are orthogonal: the presence of one doesn't imply the presence of the other.

por qué las mejores decisiones suelen ser las más difíciles de explicar?