reasonings

Biolawguy: eibniz famously believed everything could be reduced to a math-like analysis with objective answers, and in the Art of Discovery wrote: “The only way to rectify our reasonings is to make them as tangible as those of the Mathematicians, so that we can find our error at a glance, and when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate ... to see who isright.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Someone Like Me 2010

Leibniz famously believed everything could be reduced to a math-like analysis with objective answers, and in the Art of Discovery wrote: “The only way to rectify our reasonings is to make them as tangible as those of the Mathematicians, so that we can find our error at a glance, and when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate ... to see who isright.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Someone Like Me 2010

They rest, however, upon certain reasonings that may be approximately true.

Photographing the Sky 1920

The author seems to say: “I am ashamed to attack you; you are so weak that, even supported, you must fall; your reasonings are your shame, and your excuses are your condemnation.

Criticisms and Interpretations. III. By Hippolyte Adolphe Taine 1917

This, at least, would be the natural course of things; and our reasonings will be the more likely to be just, in proportion as they are accommodated to this standard.

The Federalist Papers 1788

This, at least, would be the natural course of things; and our reasonings will be the more likely to be just, in proportion as they are accommodated to this standard.

The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton 1780

I shall here take occasion to propose a second observation concerning our demonstrative reasonings, which is suggested by the same subject of the mathematics.

A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743

I shall here take occasion to propose a second observation concerning our demonstrative reasonings, which is suggested by the same subject of the mathematics.

A treatise of human nature 1739

I shall here take occasion to propose a second observation concerning our demonstrative reasonings, which is suggested by the same subject of the mathematics.

A Treatise of Human Nature 1739

Upon those kind of reasonings which are more ordinary and common among bad men, and whereby they cheat themselves into everlasting perdition; and they are such as these:

The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 07. 1630-1694 1820