It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.
Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy. - C. D. Broad
Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.
- C. D. Broad
It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it wo… - C. D. Broad
It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it wo…
Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that… - C. D. Broad
Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that…
Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact. - C. D. Broad
Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact.
...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic … - C. D. Broad
...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic …
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to… - C. D. Broad
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to…
... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information. - C. D. Broad
... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.
the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to th… - C. D. Broad
the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to th…
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a… - C. D. Broad
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a…
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