Accounts Quote by Hilary Kornblith

If we want to make sense of the possibility of successful inductive inference, and if we want to explain the possibility of laws of…

— Hilary Kornblith

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I…

— Hilary Kornblith

“It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an existence natural…

— George Berkeley

Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit…

— James Hutton

Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter,…

— David Fontana

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the…

— David Attenborough

“Many people believe that if something comes from nature, it must be better than something synthetically made. Hence, the all-too-common (and meaningless) marketing claims…

— Michael Matthews

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

— Richard Bentall

...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is…

— Jerry Fodor

The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say…

— Hilary Kornblith

“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever coding algorithm.…

— James Gleick

You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined…

— Ted Cruz

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology,…

— Christopher McDougall

When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

— Cargill Gilston Knott