“Be brave enough to belittle your belief, before you belittle a person.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Replace anger with peace,moderation and clear argumentation. It hurts more the other side!” — Dionisis Agelakis Copy Share Image
They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect… — James G. March Copy Share Image
When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
“Aus, vorbei. Meine fein ausgeklügelte Argumentation, die aus Ich will nicht besteht, fällt in sich zusammen. Also doch.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind… — Scott Brooks Copy Share Image
Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord'… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is incumbent upon philosophy ... to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I think sometimes younger people - not necessarily thinkers and intellectuals and the like, but people who are on social media and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought. 2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue. 3.… — Douglas N. Walton Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The poorly sophisticated, since many of us are, as presumed to be, lacking in good arguments, we are then prone to being… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Cursed luck! —said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, —for man to be master of one of the finest… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Obama's style of argumentation is unlike any president I have ever met, and I've met a lot of them. And the condescension… — Paul Gigot Copy Share Image
As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“We are fed ideas in small sound bites that are really just the conclusions of particular beliefs. We do not examine what… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
My generation has not seen one single day of peace, and my dream is for my children and the children of all… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“One can indeed try to obtain a particular result either by the use of violence or by speech aimed at securing the… — Chaim Perelman Copy Share Image
I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it—they are… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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