By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be … - Chauncey Wright
By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be …
- Chauncey Wright
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. - Chauncey Wright
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand simple. A theory… - Chauncey Wright
A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand simple. A theory…
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. - Chauncey Wright
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science … - Chauncey Wright
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science …
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization. - Chauncey Wright
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or, if… - Chauncey Wright
The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or, if…
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through eviden… - Chauncey Wright
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through eviden…
In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencie… - Chauncey Wright
In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencie…
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