Logic

Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist

Logic

"...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph."

Culture Logic Photograph

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Milan Kundera Writer

Logic

"Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)"

Art Logic Source

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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher

Logic

"Elementary propositions consist of names."

Names Language Logic

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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher

Logic

"The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law."

Law Logic Propositions

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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher

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"All propositions are of equal value."

Language Logic Equal

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Edward de Bono Psychologist

Logic

"Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic."

Feelings Logic Disguise

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Denzel Washington Actor, Director

Logic

"I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them."

Monsters Logic Make Sense

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Cherise Sinclair Author

Logic

"Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly."

Weapons Logic Excellent

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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician

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"To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought."

Logic Certainty Ontology

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet

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"Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle."

Sun Logic Candle

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk

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"The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant."

Way Language Logic

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author

Logic

"Logic is a feeble reed, friend."

Logic Reeds

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor

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"No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof."

Tests Logic Ontology

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher

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"Life [had] replaced logic."

Logic Replaced

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Queen Rania of Jordan Queen consort, Philanthropist

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"It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself."

Girl Speak Logic

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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet

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"Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong."

Might Logic

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet

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"God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate."

Ignorance Infinite Logic

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Edgar Rice Burroughs Author

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"Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?"

Brain Logic Statistics

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist

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"Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary."

Ordinary Logic Inference

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician

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"Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal"."

Facts Study Logic

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