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It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction.… — A.J. Ayer
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible. — Edmund Husserl
What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The… — Robert M. Pirsig
Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that… — Michael Harner
The real revolution is the revolution of consciousness and each one of us first needs to eliminate the divisionary, materialistic noise we have been conditioned… — Peter Joseph
Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the latter… — Edward Feser
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical,… — A.J. Ayer
In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained… — Huston Smith
My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him.… — Jim Butcher
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre
It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it,… — John von Neumann
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and… — Robert Nozick
[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter… — Andrew Sullivan
I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any… — Merton Miller
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have… — Peter L. Berger
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and… — George C. Williams
The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The… — Che Guevara
I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to… — Will Self
Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that… — Jose Padilha
The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that… — Kedar Joshi
In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor… — Michael Denton
It's an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym. In some ways, I'm probably… — Jonathan Gottschall
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or… — Albert Einstein

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