Cause and effect Quote by Gregory Bateson Download Open image “Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.” — Gregory Bateson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cause and effect Causes Logic Models Poor
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere in life… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour). — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception,… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life” — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human activity in… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life,… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“One cannot change his current life span but one can change his next life form. The ticket can be changed but death cannot be… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“One of the protestor's sign catches my eye. HOMISEXUALITY IS THE DEVIL'S WORK, it says. And once again I think about how people use… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next to us… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There are two types of purushartha (self effort): those with wrong beliefs have self effort (purusharth) with illusory vision and the enlightened one’s have… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The Law of Karma is also called the Law of Cause and Effect, Action and Reaction and also as you sow, so shall you… — Sham Hinduja Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. Mind… — James Allen Copy Share Image
In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image