Best 923 quotes in «logic quotes» category

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time. ... Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of Hellenistic thought on modern thought?

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.

General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.

Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.

I am beyond logic and rationality.

I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.

If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

I'm impervious to logic.

I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

I'm fascinated by the logic that leads to something.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.