Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence. — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or, if you… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
