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“The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.”

Way Two Three Lines Logic Certainty One Way Uncertainty Planes Reasoning Two Ways Magnitude Ontology Three Ways

Author:Aristotle

“Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.”

“When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.”

Has Beens Two Lines Boys Paper Logic Bases Distance Philosopher Invisible Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Visible Fountain Pencils Straight Lines Nothing New Ontology

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.”

Two Gold Logic Absolutes Metals Sovereign Seventies Grapes Sects Alchemist

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.”

Mind Looks Two Different Logic Performing Different Things

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived is true." A profound psychological mistake. It is true only of formal logic, wherein the mind never quits the sphere of its first assumptions to pass out into the sphere of real existences; no sooner does the mind pass from the internal order to the external order, than the necessity of verifying the strict correspondence between the two becomes absolute. The Ideal Test must be supplemented by the Real Test, to suit the new conditions of the problem.”

“The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project.”

May Two Universe Truth Is Behavior Projects Models Concepts Logic Contrast Execution Technological Centre Discourse Rationality

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.”

Ifs Men Two Different Asks Mistake Talking Five He Man Logic Seven Philosopher Plus Ninety

Author:Thomas Friedman

“there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.”

People Two Reason Sides Fashion Logic Exciting Peaceful France Reason Why Two Sides Frenchmen

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

“When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.”

Ifs Mind Two Three Study Logic Secure Dry Entertaining Pursued Weariness

Author:Isaac Watts

“it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent.”

“No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.”

Two Book Use Written Lovers Logic Extremes Phrases

Author:Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

“When you look at your freelance career, it's really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it's a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You'll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores.”

Ifs Looks Two Self Jobs Careers Like You Flow Logic Bigger Stores Anchors Malls Self Contained

Author:Chris Hardwick

“From the empty grave of Jesus the enemies of the cross turn away in unconcealable dismay. Those whom the force of no logic can convince, and whose hearts are steeled against the appeal of almighty love from the cross itself, quail before the irresistible power of this simple fact. Christ has risen from the dead! After two thousand years of the most determined assault upon the evidence which demonstrates it, that fact stands. And so long as it stands Christianity, too, must stand as the one supernatural religion.”

“My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.”

Years Has Beens Two Three Belief Technology Economic Hundred Years Ago Logic Cruelty Sophisticated Unimaginable Personal Beliefs

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Two Shows Values Water Can Do Share Conversation Prove Evidence Argument Logic Importance Appeals Logical What If Oxygen Hydrogen Logical Arguments

Author:Sam Harris

“People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.”

“I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.”

Two Numbers Growing Up Growing Happened Logic Luck Nine Consolation Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Janice Galloway

“I guess the hard part is more in the development stage when we're writing it. The logic is hard. You come up with a great idea and you get all excited that it's going to work and then you go down two hours and then one guy turns to everyone and goes, 'Wait, that makes absolutely no sense because if he was there, then this wouldn't have happened, then this,' and it completely implodes.”

Ifs Writing Two Ideas Hard Guy Turns Waiting Hours Happened Stage Development Logic Come Up Excited Going To Work Great Idea

Author:Dean Israelite

“Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.”

Giving Wells Kind Stills Two Moving Lying Speak Church Religious Careers Study Pieces Logic Give Me Chess Sanity Trust In God Splits Religious Life

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.”

World Two Different Real Dream Opportunity Logic Limitation Citizenship Two Worlds

Book:The sleepwatchers

Source: The sleepwatchers

“If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape, as many have argued, the binary logic that underpins much of the history of western philosophy.”

Ifs Two Philosophy Helping Courses Sex Shapes Logic Western Assumption Binary Western Philosophy

Author:Alison Assiter

“As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.”

“As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the ease of logic, but offer some really important truths about narrative art, at the very least, and about memory. So I would say that all art is personal.”

Knows May Art Two Important Memories Fiction Offers Art Is Logic Statements Narrative Ease Motto My Motto Narrative Art

Author:Kwame Dawes

“The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.”

Two Moving Limits Logic Skepticism Validation Dogmatism

Book:From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics, II

Source: From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics, II

“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”

May Two Exercise Logic Intuition Certainty Mathematical Combination Uncertainty Reasoning Facility Ingenuity Ontology

Author:Alan Turing

“If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Heart Two Happens Window Logic Add Reasonable Logical Cents Rationality Two Cents

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.”

People World Love Should Two Found Wonder Kissing Logic Incredibles Metals Magnet Every Second Whirlpools Succumbing

Author:Ann Patchett

“You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.”

Way Two Together Views Logic Instruments Fishes Point Of View Holes Collections Injury Strings Tied Reverse Two Ways Lexicographer

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult to understand. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.”

Men Two Soul Sometimes Together Difficult Situation Mystery Logic Extraordinary Attraction Worldly Soulmate Hinges Fracture

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.”

Men Giving Believe Heart Two Reason Force Cases Greater Mystery Logic Myth Suits Excitement Dull Interpretation Legends Incidents Plausible Enigma Insignificance

Author:Bryce Courtenay

“Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.”

Two Soul Sometimes Together Mystery Logic Attraction Hinges Fracture

Book:The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series

Source: The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series

“I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”

“So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—” “Don’t try,” Waxillium said. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.” “I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.”

Men Trying Said Two Gun Logic Let Me Add Fortune Wayne Dead Man Scarves Pickles Fortune Teller

Book:Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne Series: (Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning)

Source: Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne Series: (Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning)

“A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.”

People Heart Two Enjoy Sides Deals Quality Logic Paid Blame Intimacy Warmth Both Sides Shortcomings Irritated Good Quality Warmth Of Heart

Author:Ivan Goncharov

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.”

Knows Believe Two Use Lying Party Opinion Knowing Democracy Impossible Honesty Morality Integrity Conscious Logic Claims Citizenship Guardian

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.”

Knows Men Mean Two Winning Force Deals Liberty Economic Gun Economics Logic Persuasion

Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

“Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are reduced to apodictic judgments that such and such conclusions follow from such and such premises, and method is reduced to judgments that prescribe the procedure that should be followed in the search for truth.”

Should Two Ideas Truth Judgment Argument Logic Method Conclusion Latter Divided Examination Procedures Premises Search For Truth

Author:Andre-Marie Ampere

“Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies in modern times begins with the publication in 1847 of George Boole's The Mathematical Analysis of Logic.”

“Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and reflection, tries to understand the purpose or meaning of the universe. These two are cross-related. Purpose implies structure, and structure ought somehow to be interpretable in terms of purpose.”

Trying Two Inspiration Purpose Order Universe Term Atheism Ought Reflection Crosses Logic Structure Experiments Related Theological

Author:Charles Hard Townes

“If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Two Science Fit Logic Thirds Witty Two Things Credulity

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed.”

Firsts Two Logic Intelligence Committed Divided Fallacy

Author:Morris Raphael Cohen

“Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of feeling that comes when you gauge the distance to be jumped between two stones across a brook. Something within you disengages itself from your body and travels ahead with your vision to make the test. You can feel it try the jump as you stand looking. Then uncertainty gives way to the conviction that it can or can't be done.”

“We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Two War Ends Cities Cutting Ought Destruction Logic Blind Mutual Village Display Tied Rope Clash Knots Annihilation Sowing Moles Two Of Us

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and a very small portion of accumulated knowledge infused by other human beings. So in chess we can compare these two incompatible things and probably make projections into our future. Is there danger that the human mind will be overshadowed by the power of computers, or we can still survive?”

“I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.”

Two Book Logic Mathematics Backgrounds Sensual Surfing

Author:Stephen Cole Kleene

“This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.”

Two Sometimes Matter Sides Practice Hundred Logic Two Sides

Book:Heartland

Source: Heartland

“In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.”

Two Turns Logic Math Formal

Author:Robert McKee

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