Assuming Quote by Sextus Empiricus

“Circular reasoning is infallible even if not exactly logical, and this is why so many of us so often resort to it—not so much…

— Zygmunt Bauman

To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature…

— Cornelius Van Til

... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between…

— David Hume

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given…

— William Godwin

The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification.

— Moritz Schlick

“The point is simply to keep the argument going, to ensure that it never reaches a conclusion (which leads to confusion, fatigue and collusion)”

— Matthew d'Ancona

Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion…

— Michael Polanyi

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility…

— Tony Abbott

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

“Speculation is also the natural realm of tolerance, for judgment demands evidence, and it follows that the absence of evidence which forms the core…

— Daniel Abraham