8 ideas
14767 | The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce] |
14764 | I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce] |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |
14765 | Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce] |
19590 | Empiricists are passive thinkers, given their philosophy by the external world and fate [Novalis] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
14766 | Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |