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Logic Quotes
"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
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"A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."
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"Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?"
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"Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense."
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"Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools."
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"Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now!"
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"He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being really annoyed at the depiction of Hickory Dickory Dock in a rag book of nursery rhymes because the clock in the drawing was completely wrong for the period."
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"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures."
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"The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism."
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"Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic."
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"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."
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"Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason."
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"Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems."
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"Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical."
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"She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable."
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"He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them."
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"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
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"Plurality should not be posited without necessity."
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"Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking, to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality."
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"Most people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knewfrom his extensive reading on logic and arithmetic, the largest number that most peoplecould visually appreciate. Put seven dots on a page, and most people can take a quickglance and declare, "Seven. Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost."
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"It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end."
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"2 + 2 equal 4... so far I don't think it will change to 5 or 6, it's near to fact, but the probability of the ability... equals not a fact!"
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"I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible."
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"Every why hath a wherefore."
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"If man was a logical creature: his last suspect-namely, his mouth-was going to be the first; whenever he thinks that someone, or, something is smelly."
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"Religious literature from all around the world have an abundance of philosophical teachings as well, which in fact, prove quite helpful to humanity. But a rational human being must examine every single word from the scriptures before accepting it. Otherwise, it would only lead to religious bulimia, which in turn would bring chaos down on earth."
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"[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."
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"Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence."
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"When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four."
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