Ashley tugged on his sleeve. "You're scaring me Walter." "Sorry I guess talking about ghosts is-" "It's not that," she interrupted shaking… — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
You can access that on many levels and the human spirit and the human mind responds to those themes because they recognise… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site.… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
There is false of Aristotelian logic, which is so much the basis of Christianity, and to some extent, Judaism in the west.… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
“Beyond our perceptional distortions, there is a problem with logic itself. How can someone have no clue yet be able to hold… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole… — James Kern Feibleman Copy Share Image
We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you".… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
Modern presidential debating only started with Richard Nixon and John F.Kennedy in 1960, although the proximity of that to the Lincoln-Douglas centennial… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“the key-exercise will be Formal Logic. It is here that our curriculum shows its first sharp divergence from modern standards. The disrepute… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
There is more evidence to support the possibility that there could be a crack smoking Velociraptor in a pink tutu playing the… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“For every relationship involves two related terms. Sometimes relationships are not real in either term, but arise from the way we think… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we… — Moby Copy Share Image
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There are 500 reasons I write for children… Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics… They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“The New Man is the most important things that is happening in the world today. The new man will have to find… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“Logic might be imagined to exist independent of writing—syllogisms can be spoken as well as written—but it did not. Speech is too… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes,… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Let no one rule your mind or body take special care your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man yet… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying,… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
“Analytic philosophy, that is to say, can very occasionally produce practically conclusive results of a negative kind. It can show in a… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image