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Tag Name "Reasoner" (6)

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The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.
Alexander Hamilton
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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner will ever presume to infer from it any single fact, and alter or add to the phenomena, in any single particular.
David Hume
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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.
Augustus De Morgan
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It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
George Eliot