Companion Quote by Ian Hacking Download Open image “Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.” — Ian Hacking ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Companion Epistemology Medieval Opinion Probability
“To begin with rationality in opinion: I should define it merely as the habit of taking account of all relevant evidence in arriving at… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Probability is orderly opinion and inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant new information.” — Eliezer S. Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“As the skeptics’ main teaching was that nothing could be accepted with certainty, conclusions of various degrees of probability could be formed, and these… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“probability is principally a branch of applied skepticism,” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is probably better to realize that the probability concept is in a sense subjective, that it is always based on uncertain knowledge, and… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“What we firmly believe, if it is true, is called knowledge, provided it is either intuitive or inferred (logically or psychologically) from intuitive knowledge… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences,… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars’’ are now widely used to refer to some of the disagreements… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance -… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
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