It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
“Remember, our goal is education and understanding. It’s not to win an argument. Our job is to help blind people see. When… — Eric Worre Copy Share Image
“Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken aw… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
I always approach logic without emotion. The math always equals the math. Regardless of whether I discovered the math before anyone else,… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
“Let us say that this, all of this, has a logic to it. We understand each other, don't we? Are we not,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed… — Lawrence Summers 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken… — Phil Ochs 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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