Deductions Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset…

— John Chadwick

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

— Wassily Leontief

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

— Richard Wright

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

— Aristotle

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

— Auguste Comte

These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had…

— Rene Descartes

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading…

— Charles Darwin

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

— Peter Kreeft

“If we cannot express our assumptions explicitly in ways that others can understand and build upon, there can be no larger process of testing…

— Peter Senge

“THE 3 LAWS Simplify Before You Add Clarity Before Clever Results Before Activity”

— Greg Born

“System 2 thinking tries to follow proper rules of reasoning,”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith