“Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.” MenUseGovernmentActionTheoryProgramIndependencePhilosopherPracticalsTyrantsDocumentsDeclarationWhipsDeclaration Of IndependenceThesis Book:Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence Source: Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence
“The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality.” ReligionUniverseCausesDivineTheoryDefinitionsLogicalRequirementsInconsistentThesisCausality Author:Quentin Smith
“An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.” PracticeTheoryIllusionExtremesIntuitionStupidityObservationCertaintyAphorismProbabilityHypothesisMixturesThesisSynthesisAntithesisTheory And Practice Author:William C. Brown
“"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn't postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn't whether science gets to talk about mathematical entities if Platonism is correct.” IfsTermIssuesDesignTheoryBattleIntelligentSurfaceDebateMathematicalBiologyEntityContinuingMetaphysicalNaturalismThesisCreationismIntelligent DesignScientific TheoryEvolutionary Biology Author:Elliott Sober
“The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.” ThinkingDoeGoalFailingAchieveTheoryEvidenceArgumentClaimsStatementsObservationFormerLatterMetaphysicalEpistemologyThesisScientific Theory Author:Elliott Sober
“Evan Rachel Wood is a robot, yes. And some of them, there was one person in particular that was so sure, wrote like a whole thesis, and tagged the whole cast. He was like, "Here's my theory. And remember I said it first." He was so proud. And it could not have been farther from what we're actually doing, but it was cute. I love that people are getting so passionate about it because I went through a million different theories, and they would keep changing and evolving.” PeopleFirstsPersonsHas BeensSaidDifferentWholeRememberMillionsParticularTheoryProudCastsPassionateWoodsEvolveCuteRobotsThesisTagged Author:Evan Rachel Wood