12 ideas
7454 | Gassendi is the first great empiricist philosopher [Hacking] |
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] |
3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
7452 | An experiment is a test, or an adventure, or a diagnosis, or a dissection [Hacking, by PG] |
3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
7459 | Follow maths for necessary truths, and jurisprudence for contingent truths [Hacking] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |