Criteria Quote by Paul Feyerabend Download Open image “Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.” — Paul Feyerabend ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Criteria Mathematical Reality Reasoning
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science.… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“If you formulate your question properly, mathematics gives you the answer” — Savas Dimopoulos Copy Share Image
Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, metaphysical views,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Today science prevails not because of its comparative merits, but because the show has been rigged in its favour... It reigns supreme because some… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often… — Larry Charles Copy Share Image
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that… — George Grenville Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As for the (Ballon d'Or) criteria, I'm not really sure how it works. Sometimes it's a World Cup year, sometimes it isn't. Let them… — David Villa Copy Share Image
As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“We need to give an informative set of criteria for the best explanation. It is very difficult to do so. Here are some factors… — Michael E Emmering Copy Share Image
It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
![“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/875/carl-sagan-160_belief_when-a-religious-couple-wrote-to-sagan-a_25095.jpg)
