Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) Quotes

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. 'Logic' proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

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• 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.

  

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• Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

  

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• Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

  

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• Logician: A cat has four paws. Old Gentleman: My dog had four paws. Logician: Then it's a cat. Old Gentleman: So my dog is a cat? Logician: And the contrary is also true.

  

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• Logic is logic. That's all I say.

  

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• Pierce wrote as a logician and James as a humanist.

  

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• All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

  

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• R. A. Fisher, J. Neyman, R. von Mises, W. Feller, and L. J. Savage denied vehemently that probability theory is an extension of logic, and accused Laplace and Jeffreys of committing metaphysical nonsense for thinking that it is.

  

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• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

  

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• As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.

  

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• Logic is usually understood nowadays as a study of certain formal systems, though in former times there were philosophers who held that the subject matter of logic was the formal rules of human thought.

  

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• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

  

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• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  

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• Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

  

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• It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

  

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• 'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, '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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• Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

  

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• I have expos'd myself to the enmity of all metaphysicians, logicians, mathematicians, and even theologians; and can I wonder at the insults I must suffer?

  

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• Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

  

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• No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

  

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• Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

  

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• Logic is in the eye of the logician.

  

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• The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians-and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

  

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• Logic is a feeble reed, friend. 'Logic' proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

  

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