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When we smuggle our conclusions into our investigation by beginning with them as an initial premise, we are likely to beg the question and end up with conclusions that match our presuppositions rather than reflect the truth of the matter.
Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation.
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied.
Unconfirmed suspicion tends, over time, to become willful, fallacious, and prey to the vicissitudes of mood - it acquires all the qualities of common superstition - and
Ignorance is the mother of presumption
There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.
if we do not venture somebody else will;
In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.
Brought to you by raising your voice. The next best thing to being right.
Bet on yourself.
However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.
Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.
A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit
Deduce is absurd and dangerous
Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
decided it would
Certainty becomes you.
How can you test whether something's an assumption? Try this: switch things around, and check how bananas everybody goes.
Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
[F]or all refutation must begin with some piece of knowledge which the disputants share; from blank doubt, no argument can begin.
With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances,
Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning
Analogy and probability are not bedrock; they are lifeboats in an ocean of doubt, and sometimes they founder. So rhetoric tends to the passionate:we argue, not with surety, but as the shipwrecked clinging to the only thing they have.
I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.
Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.
All myths have a basis in fact
The reasoning should always be based on solid foundations
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
establishing the
Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the inferences we feel naturally inclined to make are hardly ever valid.
People need foundation myths.
When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.
Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.
[ ... ] suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn't lead to truth
Conviction is a fist of stone at the heart of all things. Its form is shaped by sure hands, the detritus quickly swept from view. It is built to withstand, built to defy challenge, and when cornered it fights without honour. There is nothing more terrible than conviction.
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Can one come 2 conclusions,
Before the question is conceived?
In one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes or contradictions will arise. In reality there is now no guarantee of this sort of security ...
Persuaded, therefore, that ere long some ingenious
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.
Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
There is a leap of faith with any conclusion the mind can conceive.
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.
My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions.
I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
Faith becomes the foundation I'm built on.
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
First, resolve the assumptions
Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
Introduction Everybody
Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions.
Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.
Understate and over-prove.
Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
It is not really wise to make too many assumptions when you don't yet have all the facts to do so. You may believe your conclusions are logical, while they may turn out to be totally wrong.
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
The argument is at an end.
I do not feign hypotheses.
scepticism by means of classical arguments, the most effective means initially to promote arousal. And,
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.
I would stand upon facts.
Make believe I'm right.
Every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as they merit that exigent name, ideas are never a mere reception of presumed realities, but they are constructions of possibilities; therefore they are pure bits of imagination, or fine ideas of our own ...
The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.
The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.
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.
When you make any assumption,
you are preparing room for error.
The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.
I would like to start by calling bullshit.
If the idea comes to you that
Ignorance is brought about by assumption.
To every argument an equal argument is opposed,
Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.
The burden of proof is now on the doubters.
There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.
There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.
Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
Assume makes an ass out of you and me - p.239
No one is so sure of his premises as the man who knows too little.
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
Bullshit reigns.
Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.
For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
What God predetermine proves true!