Kenneth Copeland Quotes

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Don't confuse evidence with a conclusion.

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.

There can never be surprises in logic.

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

When you find nothing... it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.

A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

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.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

Knowledge consists in understanding the evidence that establishes the fact, not in the belief that it is a fact.

Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously…. If we are forced to infer a process only from its … results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities.

It is very difficult for us to assess intent, so we have to work back from actions.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

Logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use.

It's really important when we're writing our opinions to be transparent about what our decision method in the case is and how we get from Point A to B to C in the analysis.