The sensible man,' Crow had said (to Sherlock Holmes), 'don't look to confirm what he already knows -- he looks to deny it. Finding evidence that backs up your theories ain't useful, but finding evidence that your theories are wrong is priceless. Never try to prove yourself right -- always try to prove yourself wrong instead.
Andrew LaneTag: reason logic reasoning evidence deduction logical-thinking prove
For Paley, a watch is purposeful and thus must have been created by a being with a purpose. A watch needs a watchmaker, just as a world needs a world-maker—God. Yet both Wallace and Paley might have heeded the lesson from Voltaire's Candide (1759), in which Dr. Pangloss, a professor of "metaphysico-theology-cosmolonigology," through reason, logic, and analogy "proved" that this is the best of all possible worlds: '"Tis demonstrated that things cannot be otherwise; for, since everything is made for an end, everything is necessarily for the best end. Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches" (1985, p. 238). The absurdity of this argument was intended on the part of the author, for Voltaire firmly rejected the Panglossian paradigm that all is best in the best of all possible worlds. Nature is not perfectly designed, nor is this the best of all possible worlds. It is simply the world we have, quirky, contingent, and flawed as it may be.
Michael ShermerLogic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.
C.E. MurphyTruth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.
Shannon L. AlderTag: imagination truth compassion understanding seeing logic facts guessing blinded believes false-interruptations interruptation
So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?
Norton JusterTag: logic agreement disagreement agree epic milo disagree the-phantom-tollbooth agree-to-disagree the-mathematician
...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.
Dianna HardyTag: philosophy human-nature logic denial rational nonsense making-sense-of-the-world human-behaviour rationalise rationalize
I need to get ready. Ash? Touch the food and I won't take you for a driving lesson tomorrow. Dad? Touch it and I'll make you take him for a driving lesson tomorrow."
Dad backed away from the counter. Ash scowled. I laughed and continued upstairs.
Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.
Charles HartshorneTag: reason philosophy belief god religion faith logic spirituality deism pantheism pandeism panentheism
What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?
Steven NovellaTag: science logic science-vs-religion skeptics-guide-to-the-universe
[The laws of logic] were placed in our minds by the Creator during the act of creation. We speak because God has spoken. God is not the author of confusion, irrationality, or the absurd. Furthermore, his words are meant to be understood by his creatures, and a necessary condition for his creature's understanding of those words is that they are intelligible and not irrational.
R.C. SproulTag: god logic defending-your-faith the-law-of-noncontradiction
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