11 ideas
| 7454 | Gassendi is the first great empiricist philosopher [Hacking] |
| 3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 7447 | Probability was fully explained between 1654 and 1812 [Hacking] |
| 7448 | Probability is statistical (behaviour of chance devices) or epistemological (belief based on evidence) [Hacking] |
| 7449 | Epistemological probability based either on logical implications or coherent judgments [Hacking] |
| 7450 | In the medieval view, only deduction counted as true evidence [Hacking] |
| 7451 | Formerly evidence came from people; the new idea was that things provided evidence [Hacking] |
| 7452 | An experiment is a test, or an adventure, or a diagnosis, or a dissection [Hacking, by PG] |
| 7459 | Follow maths for necessary truths, and jurisprudence for contingent truths [Hacking] |
| 23812 | Force is what turns man into a thing, and ultimately into a corpse [Weil] |
| 23813 | Only people who understand force, and don't respect it, are capable of justice [Weil] |