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Letter "D" » deduction
«I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.»
Author: Bernard Ingham
| Keywords:
deduction, deductions, distortion, mow, mowed, mowing, mows, press down, Somme, supposition
«Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.»
«You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow
(Author, Editor)
| Keywords:
anatomies, anatomy, deduction, deductions, details, erasing, execution, fill in, left brain, liking, recall, silhouette, silhouettes, splurge, stopping, substantive
«He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.»
«The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, deduction, deductions, intuition, in operation, operations, rely
«Yes, I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical are really extremely practical -- so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese.»
«No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.»
«The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
axiom, axioms, deduction, deductions, empirical, hypotheses, logical
«Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.»
«We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
application, deduction, deductions, inference, inferences, intercourse
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