Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.” — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
If you want others to accept your ideas, simply explaining the ideas behind logic and arguments isn't enough - you need to… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Helen stared at him "How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?" "You may be all-powerful, but… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I still partially suffer from the delusion that if you explain things logically and systematically, most people will abandon their emotional prejudices… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The promises of modernity regarding progress, freedom and hope have not been eliminated; they have been reconfigured, stripped of their emancipatory potential… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs. — Gaetano Pesce Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so… — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
“It is better to have been, then not to have been, then to have been nothing at all." What truly is logic?… — JOHN NASH Copy Share Image
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
I use Logic or Reason and a midi keyboard for beats. If it's gonna have all live instruments in it, I'll probably… — Syd Copy Share Image
Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem.… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I've gotta make sense of them. I enjoy helping to develop material for… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“I don't understand how can people hold faith and reasoning in the same head. To my understanding, faith, like love, is blind.” — Tarif Naaz Copy Share Image
Anyone can say I love you and give you a reason .But some people can show you and still can't give you… — Miranda Copy Share Image
The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its… — David Milch Copy Share Image
“People who just float around in life without any direction will tell you that your dreams are not possible. Their knowledge is… — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
“He was the type of man who had his own sense of logic and reached his own conclusions without regard to the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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