William Stanley Jevons Quotes About Logic

Quotes about: Logic

• Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Reality, Ideas, Confusion

  William Stanley Jevons (1879). “Political Economy”

• Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Simple, Logic, Courses

  William Stanley Jevons (1870). “Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive : with Copious Questions and Examples and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms”, p.6

• Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Accomplishment, Logic, Study

  William Stanley Jevons (1870). “Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive : with Copious Questions and Examples and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms”, p.6

• When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Mother, Art, Believe

  William Stanley Jevons's reflections on his earlier life, written when he was 27 (December 1862); later published in "Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons" edited by Harriet A. Jevons, his wife (p. 11), 1886.

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