Quotes About Deductive

#1. The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.

Dennis Gabor

#2. Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

Bertrand Russell

#3. For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles.

Thomas Aquinas

#4. It is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty will inevitably be disappointed, leaving skepticism in command of almost every issue.

J. L. Mackie

#5. The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Henry Mayhew

#6. Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.

Thomas A. Edison

#7. Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.

Alfred North Whitehead

#8. If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

David Stove

#9. I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery ... I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

Bertrand Russell

#10. All mathematical proofs must be deductive. Each proof is a chain of deductive arguments, each of which has its premises and conclusion.

Morris Kline

#11. Your powers of deductive reasoning are stunning," spits Tobias. "Consider me awed.

Veronica Roth

#12. Mr Baley", said Quemot, "you can't treat human emotions as though they were built about a positronic brain".
"I'm not saying you can. Robotics is a deductive science and sociology an inductive one. But mathematics can be made to apply in either case.

Isaac Asimov

#13. If I were to sit normally, my deductive skills will immediately be reduced by roughly 40%
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Tsugumi Ohba

#14. A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.

Susan Stebbing

#15. Even science is inductive, relying on observations and best explanations, not always deductive conclusions.

Nabeel Qureshi

#16. Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.

Peter Sellers

#17. I start with an image, then I go from the image toward exploring the situation. Then I write a scene, and from the scene I find the character, from the character I find the larger plot. It's like deductive reasoning - I start with the smaller stuff and work backward.

Dan Chaon

#18. You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.

Rafael Sabatini

#19. Geometry is a Deductive Science.

John Stuart Mill

#20. Some things cannot be perceived with the five senses; they can only be conceived by the Holy Spirit. Some things cannot be deduced via deductive reasoning; they can only be imagined by the Holy Spirit. Some things cannot be learned by logic; they can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit.

Mark Batterson

#21. Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

Paul Halmos

#22. You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

William John Wills

#23. All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality, and innocence (idiocy).

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

#25. Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

Rob Thomas

#26. Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

Sun Tzu

#27. I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

Stephen Jay Gould

#28. A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is no better than a murderer himself. - Kudo Shinichi

Gosho Aoyama

#29. all learners benefited from the deductive instruction regardless of differences in aptitude.

Patsy M. Lightbown

#30. I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him, ... I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.

Bob Dole

#31. There are some people in the world that don't hug you all the time or play games but they still love you. They just don't know how to say it.

Cecelia Ahern

#32. a deep love and passion for your business is having a plan. A plan is critical. Without this roadmap, you are apt to get lost.

Dennise Cardona

#33. People are born to be free; it's a gift from God.

Joyce Meyer

#34. I really didn't mean to steal it." Mr. Williams shook his head. He scratched at his chin nervously. "Why not? That's what they're there for. Tunes belong to everybody. So do stories.

Robert Holdstock

#35. I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.

David Nicholls

#36. Come what may, I have been blest.

Lord Byron

#37. If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

Lawrence Summers

#38. There is another world, other than/ this one we choose to live in.

Li Bai

#39. Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything.

Marge Kennedy

#40. Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

Henri Bergson