Ability Quote by William Stanley Jevons

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of…

— A.J. Ayer

“In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary…

— Issac Newton

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary…

— Isaac Newton

Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of…

— Simon Blackburn

In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet…

— Isaac Newton

“The principle we are examining may be called the principle of induction, and its two parts may be stated as follows: (a) When a…

— Bertrand Russell

“The idea behind the meta-induction is that all of our theories are fundamentally provisional and quite possibly wrong, if we can add that idea…

— Kathryn Schulz

A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“And Mendeleev’s guesses showed that induction is a more subtle process in the hands of a scientist than Bacon and other philosophers supposed. In…

— Jacob Bronowski

“One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with the claim…

— Alan F. Chalmers

The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is…

— Leonhard Euler

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

— Francis Bacon