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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
From The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
The power of causal reasoning lies in the ability to reason about interventions.
From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl
The passions can be regulated by reason.
Human intelligence is not merely a product of data; it involves complex reasoning.
The principle of non-contradiction is the foundation of all logical reasoning.
What is rational is real; what is real is rational.
Reason is the light that guides us through the darkness of ignorance.
Mathematics is the music of reason.
The mind is a battlefield where reason and emotion clash.
The use of reason is to be distinguished from the use of the senses.
From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes
The intersection of faith and reason is a complex journey.
From Why Religion? by Elaine Pagels
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
We are all intuitive and we reason to justify our intuitions.
From The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Reason is often a servant to our emotional needs.
From The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
To be moral is to act according to the dictates of reason.
The understanding can only think that which it produces itself, according to its own rules.
The real is the rational and the rational is the real.
Reason is the foundation of science, and science is the path to understanding the universe.
From The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick
Causal diagrams are a powerful tool for reasoning.
From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl
Causation is the foundation of our reasoning.
From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl
The use of reason is the best way to understand the world.
From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Human reason has a tendency to go beyond the limits of experience.
Causal diagrams help us visualize relationships and reason more effectively.
From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl
The rise of reason, science, and humanism is the key to reducing violence.
Reason is the light that illuminates the path of understanding.
From The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb
Deductive logic is not sufficient for scientific reasoning.
Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
From The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
The critique of pure reason is a judgment of reason upon itself.
The understanding does not derive its laws from, but imposes them upon, the objects of experience.
Emotions are not enemies; they are signals that can inform your reasoning.
The main goal of AI research is to create systems that can reason, learn, and act autonomously.
From Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
The mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.
The real challenge lies in creating systems that can reason and learn in a human-like manner.
The critique of pure reason must be a critique of the faculty of reason itself.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
To create safe AI, we must understand the limitations of our own reasoning.
From The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian
The use of reason is to be preferred to that of the senses.
From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes
Imagination is crucial to our ability to reason and understand the world around us.
From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
From The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche