An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences… — David Hume Copy Share Image
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream… — Sheridan Morley Copy Share Image
Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is… — Jessica Helfand Copy Share Image
Logic is justly considered the basis of all other sciences, even if only for the reason that in every argument we employ… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
Once I start to do a film, it has inferences. If a guy walks down a street and kicks a dog, you're… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
“And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think we have reached a level in society - with Helen Mirren playing The Queen - when we're not surprised any… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If we want to make sense of the possibility of successful inductive inference, and if we want to explain the possibility of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
