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If absolute truth does not exist, the claim "Absolute truth does not exist" is not absolutely true either. As the above sentence - in its entirety, so all that is italicized - must be true, it forms the proof of the existence of absolute truth.
Whoever does not want to reason is renouncing the status of being human, and should be treated as unnatural.
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
Well what I'm sayin' is that there are known knowns and that there are known unknowns but there's also unknown unknowns. Things we don't know that we don't know.
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
—Mason Cooley
The hatred of reason which is common in our time is very largely due to the fact that the operations of reason are not conceived in a sufficiently fundamental way.
Logic and mathematics seem to be the only domains where self-evidence manages to rise above triviality; and this it does, in those domains, by a linking of self-evidence on to self-evidence in the chain reaction known as proof.
NOTE: In the light of incomplete, erroneous and wrong quotations of this proof by people in discussion fora, guest books and the like, I stress it is forbidden to reproduce this proof in altered or incomplete form. To alter someone's words (including leaving things out) is copyright violation. If you are unable or unwilling to quote properly, rather refer to this web page and abstain from quotation.
—Paul Cooijmans
—Paul Cooijmans
Whoever does not want to reason is renouncing the status of being human, and should be treated as unnatural.
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.
Well what I'm sayin' is that there are known knowns and that there are known unknowns but there's also unknown unknowns. Things we don't know that we don't know.
—Gin Rummy, Boondocks
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
—Mason Cooley
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers.
—Raymond F. Jones, The Non-Statistical Man
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
—Sir William Drummond, Academical Questions
He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.
The hatred of reason which is common in our time is very largely due to the fact that the operations of reason are not conceived in a sufficiently fundamental way.
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.
—Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
Logic and mathematics seem to be the only domains where self-evidence manages to rise above triviality; and this it does, in those domains, by a linking of self-evidence on to self-evidence in the chain reaction known as proof.
—Willard van Orman Quine, The Web of Belief
And therefore, by process of elimination, the electron must taste like grapeade.
—Professor Farnsworth, Futurama
An experiment was carried out...
—Look Around You
The one-electron universe hypothesis postulates that there exists only a single electron in the universe, propagating through space and time in such a way as to appear in many places simultaneously.
—Wikipedia, Richard Feynman
Three statisticians go duck hunting. Their dog chases out a duck and it starts to fly. The first statistician aims and takes his shot, it misses a foot too high. The second statistician aims and takes his shot, it misses a foot too low. The third statistician says, "We got him!"
—Wikipedia, Mathematical Humor
Scientists have not yet plumbed the depths of the mystery of the carrot.
—Michael Pollan on nutrition
Whatever we possess becomes of double value when we have the opportunity of sharing it with others.
—Bouilly
And therefore, by process of elimination, the electron must taste like grapeade.
—Professor Farnsworth, Futurama
An experiment was carried out...
—Look Around You
The one-electron universe hypothesis postulates that there exists only a single electron in the universe, propagating through space and time in such a way as to appear in many places simultaneously.
—Wikipedia, Richard Feynman
Three statisticians go duck hunting. Their dog chases out a duck and it starts to fly. The first statistician aims and takes his shot, it misses a foot too high. The second statistician aims and takes his shot, it misses a foot too low. The third statistician says, "We got him!"
—Wikipedia, Mathematical Humor
Scientists have not yet plumbed the depths of the mystery of the carrot.
—Michael Pollan on nutrition
Whatever we possess becomes of double value when we have the opportunity of sharing it with others.
—Bouilly
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