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Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena [sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.

Ian Hacking's Popular Quotes

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

- Ian Hacking

The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is a…

- Ian Hacking

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

- Ian Hacking

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

- Ian Hacking

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it fr…

- Ian Hacking

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

- Ian Hacking

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

- Ian Hacking

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

- Ian Hacking

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

- Ian Hacking