Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are reduced to apodictic judgments that such and such conclusions follow from such and such premises, and method is reduced to judgments that prescribe the procedure that should be followed in the search for truth.
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.
. . . the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.
Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.
In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.
. . . as I reject the old time beliefs, it is not a matter of countering belief with belief, rather I can challenge the efficacy of old beliefs with sound arguments. We believe in nature and that human progress depends on the domination of man over nature. There is no conscious power behind it. This is our philosophy.
Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.
The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one would suffice.
If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon
It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.
Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.