Logic Quotes

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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revo

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

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Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conver

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ne

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the han

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1

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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my fam

Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.

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Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accord

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus:Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

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Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effe

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing. It is essential not to discuss whether the first proposition is really true, and not to mention what the anything is, of which it is supposed to be true. [...] Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. People who have been puzzled by the beginnings of mathematics will, I hope, find comfort in this definition, and will probably agree that it is accurate.

Bertrand Russell

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It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

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I mean, you could claim that real if the only basis for beli

I mean, you could claim that real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's it doesn't exist!

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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

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Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

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