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Letter "L" » Logic
«?the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero?»
«Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel»
«Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end»
Author: Leonard Nimoy
| About:
Logic
«Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Logic,
Mankind,
Truth
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, deductions, deny, distort, evidence, intentionally, justify, predilection, predilections, senses, systems
«Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Logic
«Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth»
«Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Logic,
Spirit
| Keywords:
ruin, The Spirit
«That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.»
«Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
justification,
Logic,
Traditions
| Keywords:
custom, get rid of, harder, justify, justifying, less, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, The Less, to get, traditional
«No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Logic
| Keywords:
appealing, cases, common mistake, fatuous, jurisdiction
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