"If they are, then the only ultimate truths……" — Chauncey Wright
"If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research."
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14 Quotes by Chauncey Wright
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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature…
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What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be
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Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge…
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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress…
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Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards…
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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may,…
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The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of…
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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which…
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