Common sense, right, and logic were all arrayed on Miranda's side.
Tellwright would not have been angry with any man who impugned them: he would merely have regarded the fellow as a crank and a born fool, on whom logic or indignation would be entirely wasted.
Logic is a sort of hard, merciless thing, I reckon.
" As in so many other conjectures, the colonists had appealed to the logic of that simple good sense of which they had made use so often, and once more, thanks to their general knowledge, it had succeeded!
But you, who have a higher logic than the verbal to guide you, have already foreseen, as the direct sequence to that unfavourable opinion of Stephen's, that he walked down to the boathouse calculating, by the aid of a vivid imagination, that Maggie must give him her hand at least twice in consequence of this pleasant boating plan, and that a gentleman who wishes ladies to look at him is advantageously situated when he is rowing them in a boat.
But she found the stock unaccountably shrunk down to the few old ones which had been well thumbed,—the Latin Dictionary and Grammar, a Delectus, a torn Eutropius, the well-worn Virgil, Aldrich's Logic, and the exasperating Euclid.
"You have at all events taken your share in using good practical precautions for the town, and that is the best mode of asking for protection," said Lydgate, with a strong distaste for the broken metaphor and bad logic of the banker's religion, somewhat increased by the apparent deafness of his sympathy.
The very resolution to which he had wrought himself by dint of logic and honorable pride was beginning to relax under her torpedo contact.
Party is Nature too, and you shall see By force of Logic how they both agree: The Many in the One, the One in Many; All is not Some, nor Some the same as Any: Genus holds species, both are great or small; One genus highest, one not high at all; Each species has its differentia too, This is not That, and He was never You, Though this and that are AYES, and you and he Are like as one to one, or three to three.
It would have seemed beforehand like a ridiculous piece of bad logic that he, with his unmixed resolutions of independence and his select purposes, would find himself at the very outset in the grasp of petty alternatives, each of which was repugnant to him.
Close your eyes, Whatsup, and give the logic of your imagination a chance.
" And where is the logic in all of this?
Living from your head as opposed to your heart, invites fear, logic, and endless analysis to stop you from doing things that will radically transform your life.
The brain function test consisted of four different computer-based maths and logic tasks that relied on precise calculations.
These games rely on logic, word skills, math and more.
The other sections of Mo Zi might be listed as follows: First , summaries and abstracts of Mo Zi's teachings; Second, discussions on logic and physical sciences; Third, records of Mo Zi's doings and sayings; Finally, a manual of military defense.
He also translated A History of Politics, On Liberty, De l'Esprit des Lois, System of Logic and Pure Logic.
Contrary to popular belief, investing is an exercise in managing your emotions, not an exercise in logic.
There is no Middle Ages logic so strong that it can stop the human tide from flowing forward.
The logic of childhood never asks to be proved—all conclusions are absolute.
