“Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance... to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man... The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.” MenSaidPhilosophyHappensBeliefSecretPrinciplesFailingSeaFlowSightEnglandRelationHarmonyEastSubtleTidesImpressedRudeCoastResemblanceEast CoastEbb And FlowDwellersKent Author:James G. Frazer
“No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.” SaidTruthRelation Book:The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Source: The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
“Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the same time, they have refused the right to install themselves in absolute knowledge. They taught not this knowledge, but its becoming in us, not the absolute but, at most, our absolute relation to it, as Kierkegaard said. What makes a philosopher is the movement which leads back without ceasing from knowledge to ignorance, from ignorance to knowledge, and a kind of rest in this movement.” KindHas BeensSaidPhilosophyMovementIgnoranceTaughtBecomingRelationAbsolutesPhilosopherWork Out Book:In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays Source: In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays
“[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should be noted that the null hypothesis is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation. Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis.” GivingShouldMaySaidFactsOrderCoursesSpeakChanceRelationExperimentsPhrasesHypothesisExperimentationNull Author:Ronald Fisher
“A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.” IfsSaidFactsExampleRelationRelatedGood Examples Author:Susan Stebbing
“If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said - unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you can never nail them. It’s like arguing with someone with Attention Deficit Disorder.” IfsLooksSaidTwoFactsAgeNextForceAttentionTalkingStepsBearsArgumentWeightRelationArguingObsessionLeapDisorderNailsDeficitFascistsIdioticAttention Deficit DisorderRetorts Author:Ann Coulter
“The U.S. is re-establishing relations with Cuba. But before President Obama can lift the embargo, it will need approval from the Republican-controlled Congress - or as Republicans who called Obama said, 'Close, but no cigar.'” NeedsSaidPresidentRepublicanRelationCongressLiftsControlledPresident ObamaApprovalCubaCigarEmbargo Author:Jimmy Fallon
“And there was some trouble with Oliver Cowdery, and whisper said it was relating to a girl then living in his family; and I was afterwards told by Warren Parish, that he himself and Oliver Cowdery did not that Joseph had Fannie Alger as wife, for they were spied upon and found together. And I can now see that at Nauvoo, so at Kirtland, that the suspicion or knowledge of the Prophet's plural relation was one of the causes of apostasy and disruption at Kirtland, although at the time there was little said publicly on the subject.” LittlesSaidI CanTogetherGirlFoundCausesWifeTroubleSubjectsRelationProphetSuspicionDisruptionPolygamyParishApostasy Author:Benjamin F. Johnson