“Once upon a time there was much talk of the apathy of the masses. Their silence was the crucial fact for an earlier generation. Today, however, the masses act not by deflection but by infection, tainting opinion polls and forecasts with their multifarious phantasies. Their abstention and their silence are no longer determining factors (that stage was still nihilistic); what counts now is their use of the cogs in the workings of uncertainty. Where the masses once sported with their voluntary servitude, they now sport with their involuntary incertitude. Unbeknownst to the experts who scrutinize them and the manipulators who believe they can influence them, they have grasped the fact that politics is virtually dead, and that they now have a new game to play, just as exciting as the ups and downs of the stock market. This game enables them to make audiences, charismas, levels of prestige and the market prices of images dance up and down with an intolerable facility. The masses had been deliberately demoralized and de-ideologized in order that they might become the live prey of probability theory, but now it is they who destabilize all images and play games with political truth.” SilenceStatisticsInfectionDeflectionProbability TheoryInduction Book:The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena Source: The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
“The principle we are examining may be called the principle of induction, and its two parts may be stated as follows: (a) When a thing of a certain sort A has been found to be associated with a thing of a certain other sort B, and has never been found dissociated from a thing of the sort B, the greater the number of cases in which A and B have been associated, the greater is the probability that they will be associated in a fresh case in which one of them is known to be present; (b) Under the same circumstances, a sufficient number of cases of association will make the probability of a fresh association nearly a certainty, and will make it approach certainty without limit.” LogicInduction Author:Bertrand Russell
“როცა სხვა კვდება, [...] თამამად გამომაქვს დასკვნა და დარწმუნებით ვამბობ: "მოკვდა". მაგრამ მე თვითონ რომ მოვკვდები, როგორ უნდა მივხვდე, რომ მოვკვდი? და თუ ვერ მივხვდები, ხომ არ არის ეს იმის მანიშნებელი, რომ "სხვა" მოკვდავია, "მე" უკვდავი, ხოლო ინდუქცია - სისულელე?” DeathLogicInduction Book:განზომილება Source: განზომილება
“This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusions.” ParadoxSelf ReferenceStrange LoopInduction Author:David Deutsch