The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or, if you please, the a priori presumption, that physical causation is universal; that the constitution of nature is… — 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
Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence. — Chauncey Wright Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. — Chauncey Wright Copy Share
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
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance;… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. — Chauncey Wright Copy Share
