Quotes Tagged With :empiricism

...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things....

Four Characters in Consciousness—How does it go on? We notice immediately four important characters....

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there....

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs....

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about....

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural....

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better,....

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended....

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting....