They relieve and recommend each other, and the sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities. She punishes abstractionis...ts, and will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplici...ty of theories, metaphysical views, fairy tales, instead of the customary pair theory/observation. This impression would certainly be mistaken. My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is rather to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem of induction is not a problem of demonstration but a problem of defining the difference between valid and invalid ...>predictions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been en...couraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefor...e, can it be an a priori law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies high...er and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is based ...on induction, or, if you please, the a priori presumption, that physical causation is universal; that the constitution of nature is written in its actual manifestations, and needs only to be deciphered by experimental and inductive research; that it is not a latent invisible writing, to be brought out by the magic of mental anticipation or metaphysical mediation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They thought it good you hear a play, And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,... Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »