The worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.
PhilosophyLogicCritical thinkingReasoningConsequencesInterest
The worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.
PhilosophyLogicCritical thinkingReasoningConsequencesInterest
Interesting consequences may be irrelevant or misleading.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Hume, by his criticism of the concept of causality, awakened him from his dogmatic slumbers-so at least he says, but the awakening was only temporary, and he s…
Her reasoning is full of tricks And butterfly suggestions, I know no point to which she sticks; She begs the simplest questions, And, when her premises are str…
Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.
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…