Confused Quote by Francis Bacon

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

— Ambrose Bierce

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put…

— Andre Gide

The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class.…

— John Stuart Mill

I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic…

— Ambrose Bierce

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Logic might be imagined to exist independent of writing—syllogisms can be spoken as well as written—but it did not. Speech is too fleeting to…

— James Gleick

Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .

— Karl Popper

In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom

— Raheel Farooq

We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as…

— Paul Klee

“Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths; the post-Boolean continuum of shades of…

— Bryant McGill