Customs Quote by David Hume

People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects produced by…

— Albert Bandura

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations…

— Harold Jeffreys

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

— Nick Bostrom

Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference…

— Nelson Goodman

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are…

— Bertrand Russell

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always…

— Richard Whately

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as…

— Edmond Jabes

I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as…

— David Hume