Quotes About Reasoning

AI2 was born from a desire to create a system that could truly reason about knowledge, rather than just offer up what had been written on a subject before.

A stupid person is someone who has the facts, who has the proper information, and still makes the wrong decision.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

When in doubt, use your brain. If yo have one.

Afflectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius clarum et distinctam formamus ideam.

La negatividad no puede mantenerse sin algo a lo que aferrarse. El positivismo y la felicidad pueden existir sin ninguna razón.

Come, let us reason together, saith the Lord, that there may be lights in the firmament of the heaven, and they may shine upon the earth.

Our decisions are to a much greater extent dependent on our desire to conform to the standards of our class and environment than we are inclined to admit. A considerable proportion of our reasoning is merely an automatic function, so to speak, of influences and impressions which have become part of us...

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.