Assumption Quote by Chauncey Wright

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

— Chauncey Wright

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

— Chauncey Wright

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

— Chauncey Wright

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

Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance;…

— Chauncey Wright