Philosophy Quote by Walter Isaacson

“Hume, Huxley, and other "immanent " psychologists, tried to identify the conception with a mere generalisation, so making no distinction between logical and psychological…

— Otto Weininger

“If the process fails at any point, the idea in question lacks cognitive content. When carried through successfully, however, it yields a ‘just definition’…

— David Hume

“Generations of Humeans have… been misled into offering analyses of causation and of natural law that have been far too weak because they had…

— Anonymous

I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible…

— Albert Einstein

“Reason, Hume argued, doesn’t determine what we want but only how we obtain it.”

— Eric Weiner

“Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as such, irrespective of all environmental, accidental, and individual…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Einstein's theory, experimentally corroborated for the last hundred years, regardless of how outlandish and opposed to our prejudices (disguised as they are with the…

— Felix Alba-Juez

“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori, Leibniz ended…

— Lee Braver

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never…

— Max Planck

“This standard Humean/Kantian dichotomy of analytic and synthetic propositions immediately yields a very problematic implication: Logical and mathematical propositions are dis-connected from experiential reality.…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of…

— Benjamin Franklin

..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience;…

— David Hume