Quotes and Sayings About Logical
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To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
-- Abraham Kaplan -
What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.
-- Albert Camus -
The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.
-- Albrecht DurerSource : "Dictionary of Scientific Biography". Book edited by M. Steck, 1970-1990.
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Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
-- Alexis Korner -
Argument should be polite as well as logical.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
-- Alvin PlantingaSource : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.168, Oxford University Press
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I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know. (Spoken by Megan.)
-- Amy Neftzger -
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions
-- Anatol RapoportSource : "Various meanings of 'theory'". American Political Science Review, 52.04, 1958.
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Since sane people rarely surround themselves with furnishings which they personally find repellent, it is logical to assume that it will generate a bit of goodwill to enthuse about those they have ...
-- Anne Morice -
There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.
-- Anthony Stafford BeerSource : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 74), 1968.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.
-- Beth Lisick -
I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.
-- Carl Safina -
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The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.
-- Carl Sagan -
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman -
There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.
-- Criss Jami -
I loved the idea that biology was logical.
-- Cynthia Kenyon -
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In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.
-- Daniel CrevierSource : Daniel Crevier (1993). “AI: the tumultuous history of the search for artificial intelligence”, Basic Books (AZ)
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To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
-- David Brooks -
...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
-- David Foster Wallace -
...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.
-- David Rockefeller -
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It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.
-- Dennis LindleySource : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 5 "The Rules of Probability", p. 64), 2006.
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Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination...
-- Doris HumphreySource : Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”
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...you canʹt always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or fair. It just happens.
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
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By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy
-- Francis Collins -
If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
-- Francis Crick