I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in… — Morris H. DeGroot Copy Share Image
All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Copy Share Image
In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation -… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words ,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“The task of general semiotics is that of tracing a single formal structure which underlies all these phenomena, this structure being that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The main reason for insisting on the universal Flood as a fact of history and as the primary vehicle for geological interpretation… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data. — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“The population of an inference is thus equivalent to the breadth or scope of an argument.” — John Gerring Copy Share Image
IF there is no experiment,no observation,without observation,no inference,without inference control conclusion(theory or law)cant be stated.one process leads to another,one step mistook may… — Adewale Ajibola Copy Share Image
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