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“the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of the medium, the distance of the object, and the disposition of the organ, in order to render them, within their sphere, the proper criteria of truth and falsehood.”

Reason Order Objects Evidence Distance Senses Mediums Consideration Spheres Organs Falsehood Metaphysics Disposition Criteria Truth And Falsehood

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary.”

Home Beautiful Policy Objects Creatures Forests Preserves Consideration Wilderness Refuge Prosperous Wild Creatures

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.”

Humans Philosophy Individual Human Beings Results Existence Achieve Objects Slavery Recognition Consideration Abolition Affirming Philosophic Abolition Of Slavery

Author:Gilbert Simondon

“Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology.”

Mean Objects Definitions Flying Consideration Void Ufo Parapsychology

Book:The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn

Source: The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn

“Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.”

Mean Eye Names Lines Fronts Objects Perspective Distance Starting Edges Surface Rational Consideration Demonstration Pyramids Transmit

Book:The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete

“In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for the purposes of a calculating engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.”

Purpose Process Influence Objects Essentials Various Variety Consideration Engines Minimum Arrangements Selection Calculations Succession Calculating Completing Computation

Author:Ada Lovelace

“The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.”

Should Individual Honest Objects Greed Humanitarian Saving Motive Consideration Labour

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all mathematical analysis belong to operations, as distinguished from the objects operated upon and from the results of the operations performed upon those objects, is very strikingly defined and separated.”

Action Results Study Objects Independent Defined Mathematical Operations Analysis Consideration Peculiar Engines Distinguished Mathematical Analysis

Author:Ada Lovelace

“A line partakes of the simplicity of a point more than does a surface; and a surface [partakes thereof more] than does a material object-as was evident. From this consideration of a point and a material object elevate yourself unto a likeness of True Being and of the universe; and by means of [this] quite clear symbolism [of a point] make a conjecture about what has been said.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Said Universe Lines Clear Objects Materials Simplicity Surface Consideration Evident Symbolism Conjecture

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.”

I Can States Government Objects Serious Jokes Consideration

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“Consequentialist theories pretend that we can set some great big ends (the general happiness, human flourishing), provide ourselves with definite enough conceptions of them to make them the objects of instrumental reasoning, and then obtain enough reliable information about what actions will best promote them that we could regulate our conduct by these considerations alone.”

Humans Ends Enough Bigs Action Information Objects Theory Reasoning Consideration Conception Definite Flourishing

Author:Allen W. Wood