Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. | |
— Norman Cousins | |
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2016 | Not In My Experience |
2015 | Effort |
2014 | Honest Wants |
2013 | Faith, n. |
2012 | Surprise Me |
2011 | Confused With Truth |
Posts Tagged ‘Logic’
Explaining Working Class Support For Donald
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #DonTheCon, #DumbDonald, #IncompetentDonald, Hope, Logic, My Journal, Norman Cousins, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes on June 11, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Tossers
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Faith, God, Logic, Philosophy, Quotes, Religious Mania, Science, Stephen King on April 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God — or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance… logic can be happily tossed out the window. | |
— Stephen King | |
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2015 | Hunger |
2014 | Outside Dependence |
2013 | Doing Right |
2012 | A Short Course In Human Relations |
If Death Be My Future | |
Strive | |
Such A Fool | |
2011 | I’m Working For A Living |
Nothing So Far Removed
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Logic, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, Reasoning, René Descartes, Science on June 16, 2014| 8 Comments »
The long chains of simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult demonstrations, had led me to imagine that all things, to the knowledge of which man is competent, are mutually connected in the same way, and that there is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it, provided only we abstain from accepting the false for the true, and always preserve in our thoughts the order necessary for the deduction of one truth from another. | |
— René Descartes | |
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2013 | Positions |
2012 | Two Errors |
2011 | Long Live The King! |
Of Anything
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Logic, My Journal, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Philosophy, Proof, Quotes, Science on May 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
That which is incapable of proof itself is no proof of anything else. | |
— Percy Bysshe Shelley | |
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2013 | Legal (Almost) |
2012 | Great Scots! |
2011 | The GI Bill – A Simple History Lesson |
Breaking Even | |