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“The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.”

Book:An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition

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An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition

This book serves as a foundational text for understanding probability and inductive logic, offering detailed explanations and examples suitable for examination preparation. more

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Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking, born on February 18, 1936, is a renowned philosopher known for his work in the fields of philosophy of science, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. His research delves into the nature of scientific knowledge, the history of scientific revolutions, and the limitations of human cognition. more

“We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.”

Believe Looks Committed Being True Logical Metaphysical Dwelling

Book:Meaning

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“I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.”

Knows Humans Facts Starting Human Knowledge

Book:The Tacit Dimension

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“A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.”

Men Ideas Change He Man Concepts Commitment Transformation Occasions Fixed Stereotype Rationality Procedures Demonstrating

Author:Stephen Toulmin

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