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«Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
| Keywords:
reasonable, Reasonable man, reasoning
«Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.»
«Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Understanding
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accordance, limitations, misunderstanding, misunderstandings, reasoning, strict, stricter, strictest, The Art of Reasoning
«I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
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attain, derangement, hides, infinite, pale, pales, palest, paling, prolonged, prolonging, prolongs, reasoning, senses, the senses, unknown
«I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning»
«Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.»
«LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion --thus:_Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man._Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore --_Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accordance, arithmetical, certainty, combining, conclusion, consisting, dig, double, limitations, major, minor, minor premise, misunderstanding, obtain, piece of work, posthole, premise, premised, reasoning, seconds, sixty, strict, syllogism, syllogisms, The Art of Reasoning
«I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be.»
«I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
concerning, monkey, power politics, reasoning, The Monkey
«Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.»
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