Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter II
“I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
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“I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.”
Christiaan Huygens
(1629–1695) Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher
Letter to Pierre Perrault, 'Sur la préface de M. Perrault de son traité de l'Origine des fontaines' (1673), Oeuvres Complètes de Christiaan Huygens http://books.google.com/books?id=9IVA7sK_Bh8C (1897), Vol. 7, 298. Quoted in Jacques Roger, The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought, ed. Keith R. Benson and trans. Robert Ellrich (1997), 163
“I am the logic of all arguments - Arguments are of three kinds:”
Baba Hari Dass
(1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
1) jalpa (arrogant argument) – In this type of argument one tries to establish one's point of view by contradicting the opponent's argument without considering whether the opponent's argument is right or wrong.
2) vitanda (destructive criticism) – In this type of argument the person simply destroys the opponent's viewpoint by misleading argument.
3) vada (logical argument) – In this type of argument one uses a method of discussion with reasoning with an aim to find out what is truth and what is untruth. Reasoning is the best method of discussion to achieve the truth. This is why the Lord says, “Among arguments, I am vada or logical argument.”
Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Ch. VII-XII, 2014
“I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible.”
Matt Dillahunty
(1969) American activist
Source: Language, Truth, and Logic (1936), p. 77.
Context: The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.