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Single Idea 7451
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / a. Evidence
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Full Idea
In the medieval view, people provided the evidence of testimony and of authority. What was lacking was the seventeenth century idea of the evidence provided by things.
Gist of Idea
Formerly evidence came from people; the new idea was that things provided evidence
Source
Ian Hacking (The Emergence of Probability [1975], Ch.4)
Book Ref
Hacking,Ian: 'The Emergence of Probability' [CUP 1975], p.32
A Reaction
A most intriguing distinction, which seems to imply a huge shift in world-view. The culmination of this is Peirce's pragmatism, in Idea 6948, of which I strongly approve.
Related Idea
Idea 6948
Doubts should be satisfied by some external permanency upon which thinking has no effect [Peirce]
The
19 ideas
from Ian Hacking
7448
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Probability is statistical (behaviour of chance devices) or epistemological (belief based on evidence)
[Hacking]
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7447
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Probability was fully explained between 1654 and 1812
[Hacking]
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7459
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Follow maths for necessary truths, and jurisprudence for contingent truths
[Hacking]
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7449
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Epistemological probability based either on logical implications or coherent judgments
[Hacking]
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7450
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In the medieval view, only deduction counted as true evidence
[Hacking]
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7451
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Formerly evidence came from people; the new idea was that things provided evidence
[Hacking]
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7452
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An experiment is a test, or an adventure, or a diagnosis, or a dissection
[Hacking, by PG]
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7454
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Gassendi is the first great empiricist philosopher
[Hacking]
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13833
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'Thinning' ('dilution') is the key difference between deduction (which allows it) and induction
[Hacking]
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13834
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Gentzen's Cut Rule (or transitivity of deduction) is 'If A |- B and B |- C, then A |- C'
[Hacking]
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13835
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Only Cut reduces complexity, so logic is constructive without it, and it can be dispensed with
[Hacking]
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13837
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With a pure notion of truth and consequence, the meanings of connectives are fixed syntactically
[Hacking]
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13838
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A decent modern definition should always imply a semantics
[Hacking]
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13839
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Perhaps variables could be dispensed with, by arrows joining places in the scope of quantifiers
[Hacking]
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13843
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If it is a logic, the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem holds for it
[Hacking]
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13842
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Second-order completeness seems to need intensional entities and possible worlds
[Hacking]
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13840
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First-order logic is the strongest complete compact theory with Löwenheim-Skolem
[Hacking]
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13844
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A limitation of first-order logic is that it cannot handle branching quantifiers
[Hacking]
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13845
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The various logics are abstractions made from terms like 'if...then' in English
[Hacking]
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