All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have… — 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
