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  • Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

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    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

  • In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

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    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

  • There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

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    Alfred North Whitehead (1929). “The Aims of Education & Other Essays”
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Alfred North Whitehead

  • Born: February 15, 1861
  • Died: December 30, 1947
  • Occupation: Mathematician
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