There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
Douglas AdamsTags: past reality logic denial impossible contrary
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.
Jean-Paul SartreTags: science ethics philosophy psychology logic metaphysics ontology
Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.
Philip K. DickTags: philosophy logic fucked-up
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.
Douglas AdamsTags: logic
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
René DescartesTags: science ethics philosophy psychology logic metaphysics ontology
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
George OrwellTags: science ethics philosophy psychology logic metaphysics ontology
It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.
Joel CoenTags: logic o-brother-where-art-thou
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
Agatha ChristieTags: logic scientific-method
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, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.
George OrwellTags: politics truth paradox reality lies belief democracy opinion alternative-facts memory logic truthfulness corruption government 1984 contradiction doublethink hypnosis conciousness 2017 trump unconsciousness
Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)
René DescartesTags: doubt philosophy logic
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