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7459 | Follow maths for necessary truths, and jurisprudence for contingent truths [Hacking] |
Full Idea: Mathematics is the model for reasoning about necessary truths, but jurisprudence must be our model when we deliberate about contingencies. | |
From: Ian Hacking (The Emergence of Probability [1975], Ch.10) | |
A reaction: Interesting. Certainly huge thinking, especially since the Romans, has gone into the law, and creating rules of evidence. Maybe all philosophers should study law and mathematics? |