Literary notes about Logic (AI summary)
Across a wide range of literary works, the term "logic" emerges in multifaceted and sometimes contrasting roles. In some texts it is celebrated as the rigorous framework of thought—almost a divine or pure science of reasoning, as seen in its mathematical and systematic applications ([1], [2], [3])—while in others it is depicted more playfully or even critically, exposed for being too rigid or limited when confronted with human passion and unpredictability ([4], [5], [6]). Some authors invoke classical traditions from Plato ([7], [8]) and Kant ([9], [10], [11]) to underline its role in forming philosophical and ethical systems, whereas others like William James and Stendhal suggest that logic has boundaries when pitted against personal faith and emotion ([12], [13], [14], [15]). The term even ventures into metaphorical terrain, at times serving as an ironic commentary on human affairs or natural phenomena—ranging from the pragmatic acknowledgment of societal forces ([16]) to whimsical references in literature such as Lewis Carroll’s terse affirmation ([17]). In other instances, "logic" is used to critique the limitations of formal reasoning in capturing the complexities of life, hinting that sometimes it is the very absence of rigid logic that best explains the human condition ([18], [19], [20]). Thus, literature employs the term "logic" not only as a marker of clear thought but also as a prism through which to explore the paradoxes and subtleties of human existence ([21], [22], [23]).
- Logic is the science of the pure laws of thought, and is mathematically accurate, and is absolute.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse Henry Jones - Logic has the combination of concepts as such as problem, and the ground of knowledge as organon.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer - All pure mathematics is a priori , like logic.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - "And then—a matter of importance of a quite different kind for a mind of his range—that passion is the first true course of logic, which he ever had.
— from On Love by Stendhal - One’s hope was in the weakness of logic.
— from Howards End by E. M. Forster - Hegel's own logic, with all the senseless hocus-pocus of its triads, utterly fails to prove his position.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - Hence the failure of attempts to apply arithmetical or algebraic formulae to logic.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - Idea , Logic .
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - And when we compare this with the former triple division which we took up from the Aristotelian logic, we see that the parallelism is significant.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - This name seems preferable to the term particularia , which is used for these judgments in logic.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant - However, there is no need of making changes in logic.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant - If it be true, it seems to me that this is involved in the strict logic of the case.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - In the end it is our faith and not our logic that decides such questions, and I deny the right of any pretended logic to veto my own faith.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - In such a world of singulars our logic would be useless, for logic works by predicating of the single instance what is true of all its kind.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - The reason may be that his feelings come to him from Nature, but his logic from government.
— from On Love by Stendhal - When the Confederate army saw the time had come, they acknowledged the pitiless logic of facts and ceased fighting.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - That’s logic.’
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll - Mother's heart had an instant logic.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - Morale, for all the greater purposes of war, is a state of faith; and its logic will be the superb and elusive logic of human faith.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - From time to time in History, Divine logic makes an onslaught.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo - "I had to encounter all their jokes and the whole of their logic," he wrote a friend.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - I have the argument and logic here, it is in my own breast and consciousness; and the logic of the schools becomes contemptible beside these.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - As is often said, grammar expresses the unconscious logic of the popular mind.
— from How We Think by John Dewey