Great ones Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine Download Open image “Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.” — Willard Van Orman Quine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great ones Has beens Inspirational Logic Love Subjects
Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class. — Lady Violet Copy Share Image
Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
“Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e.,… — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Copy Share Image
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.” — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz.,… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory?… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Certainly we're always rooting for our particular contingent moment to be a great one. Pain-free. But the more expansive vision has to include the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very… — Richard Sharp Copy Share Image
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals.… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The truth is that Ron is my hero. He's always there for his friends - sometimes belligerently, but there nevertheless. He's also the comic… — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
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