Agreement Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon…

— James Harvey Robinson

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

— Roger Bacon

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

— James Harvey Robinson

“reasoning is a uniquely human talent. It may have arisen from our need to understand one another’s intentions and motivations. This allowed us to…

— John Medina

It may be true that only those minds which are habituated to think logically can safely trust their intuitive conclusions, on the theory that…

— Richard M. Weaver

“ ‘Reasoning doesn’t have this function of helping us to get better beliefs and make better decisions,’ said Hugo Mercier, who is a co-author…

— Ezra Klein

[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my…

— Charles Lyell

Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And…

— Karl Popper

“a few centuries earlier. At that time the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not; and…

— C.S. Lewis

“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis,…

— David Hume

“Scholars whose conclusions are based on their reasoning, without recourse to experience, are unable to make definite statements about the makeup of this world.…

— Otto Von Guericke

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or…

— Gottfried Leibniz