Quotes About Reductio

#1. The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.

Frederick C. Beiser

#2. One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70)

Jerry A. Fodor

#3. The obvious reductio ad absurdum is Holocaust deniers: Should their perspective be provided, for "balance," any time someone writes about the Holocaust?

Chris Mooney

#4. The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

George Tyrrell

#5. Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

G.H. Hardy

#6. Too many of us," she said, "take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes. Wouldn't you say?

Brandon Sanderson

#7. By learning to yield to the loving authority ... of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life - his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

James Dobson

#8. Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!

Jon Ronson

#9. Now is all you get. Now is all you ever get.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

Sigmund Freud

#11. Will the words end, I ask
whenever I remember to.
Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now,
and promising me
infinity.

Jacqueline Woodson

#12. Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

Jasper Fforde

#13. My husband and I were in Paris for the weekend and I hated wearing anything that was in style. I really loved '50s dresses, so we started going around Paris and hunting this stuff down. It became like this treasure hunt. From then on, I felt like a pirate every time I left Paris.

Stephanie Seymour

#14. Have you hugged your favorite Dork lately? Most of us are squeezably soft and adorable.

Michael P. Clutton

#15. The incredibly powerful and enriching lifestyle of seeking beauty is a humble service of love and healing.

Bryant McGill

#16. They told me that to make her fall in love I had to make her laugh. But everytime she laughs I'm the one who falls in love

Bob Marley