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To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning. The starting-point, the method, and the conclusion are always involved in one another.
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A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]
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The practical utility of Formal Logic to-day lies not so much in the establishment of positive conclusions as in the prompt detection and exposure of invalid inference.
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sometimes it is necessary for us all to pretend together that language can really mean.
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If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.
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The following statement is true. The previous statement is false.
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When you make any assumption,
you are preparing room for error.
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The present indicative asserts something which is occuring while the speaker is making the statement.
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If the idea comes to you that
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From a contradiction you may deduce everything
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Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.
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You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.
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I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.
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Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.
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Logic turns the act of abstraction into a tool for determining what is true and what is false: truth can be discovered in words alone, apart from concrete experience.
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Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.
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Once assumptions are set in play they tend to justify additional assumptions.
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The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Assumptions are dangerous things.
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Of inference, all are capable; of judgment, only a few.
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To imply something," Jesse said, "you have to know something. I'm just trying to learn.
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If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it.
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Give me ambiguity or something else.
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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
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The meaning of a statement is the means of its enactment. Once
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certain of certain certainties.......
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To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
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I think, therefore I'll think.
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Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.
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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for construing discourse as ambiguous, elliptical, or involving special idioms, we should not so construe it.
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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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Q: The Witness is reminded that she may be held in contempt.
A: The feeling is mutual.
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Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.
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Ignorance is brought about by assumption.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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to know that an inference is deductively valid is to know that there are no situations in which the premisses are true and the conclusion is not.
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concerning whose
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No action is safe from meaning.
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Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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What if, I show the negative of something will you to do the thing which you are doing???
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Vague statements are interchangeable.
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The meaning of a logically consistent mathematical statement is not subject to interpretation.
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I must say that my father is innocent. I should say it. I have to say it. I'm obliged to say it. My father will kill me if I don't say he is innocent. The children of murderers cannot kill the father.
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To say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it
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It is not what you meant to say, but it is what your saying meant.
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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.
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A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.
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Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
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Acknowledge what i mean, and not what say
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Sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
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The essential business of language is to assert or deny facts. Given
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Conclusion means death. Confusion means possibility.
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ASSUME is to make an ASS of U and ME.
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Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions
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Ambiguity begets participation.
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complexity. Assuming
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Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.
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There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.
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Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of all for the superstitions of the dead.
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existential overload
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When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.
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if we do not venture somebody else will;
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You could be thoroughly an intellectual while not surrendering maleness; you could not be so totally intellectual and not surrender some degree of femaleness.
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Conclusion The
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Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.
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I am certainly an ought and not a must.
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I imagine, therefore I am.
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And to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
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Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.
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Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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To affirm is to make firm.
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One or two particulars may suggest hints of enquiry, and they do well who take those hints; but if they turn them into conclusions, and make them presently general rules, they are forward indeed, but it is only to impose on themselves by propositions assumed for truths without sufficient warrant.
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A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in ...
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A lion of truth never assumes anything without validity. Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.
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This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
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Then, when the rhetorician is more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge? - is not that the inference?
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We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
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This sentence is not true
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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves
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Never ASSUME, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS of U and ME.
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A dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters a desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic. And
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Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.
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being of the knower, there is a corresponding
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That what is agreed to be done, must be considered as done.
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On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.
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Much of what is asserted as true is so asserted, not as a declaration of what the speaker knows but rather as a defence against doubt in the hope that the opposite proposition may be thereby excluded.
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Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and the judgment that vichyssoise is cold expresses the fact that vichyssoise is cold.
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Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.
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Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.
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Your condition is NOT your conclusion.
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not.