Quotes About Reasoning

Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the chanting of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

I don't want you to give in, I want you to change, to understand my reasoning at a deeper level and accept it as the truth.

I don't want you to give in, I want you to change, to understand my reasoning at a deeper level and accept it as the truth.

Proof seduces them. One of the greatest pleasures of the human race is thinking.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

The logic of human intelligence is absurd

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

Since the topic is science, the non scientists don't get a vote. We shouldn't decide everything by polling the masses. This is the fallacy called Argumentum Ad Numerum, the idea that something is true because great number believe it, as in EAT SHIT, twenty trillions flies can't be wrong!

It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.

If the argument is, "Well, that was all part of the plan," then I have to ask: How can you take the lack of evidence of a plan as evidence of a plan? That makes no sense.

There is a deep-seated reason why intelligent, sensible people suddenly recoil from objective evidence when the topic turns to evolution. I think the fear of death has a lot to do with it.

Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report? Hobbes: (Reading Calvin's paper) "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender modes." Calvin: Academia, here I come!

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

I can observe the game theory is applied very much in economics. Generally, it would be wise to get into the mathematics as much as seems reasonable because the economists who use more mathematics are somehow more respected than those who use less. That's the trend.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.