The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.Chauncey Wright
This does not deny, however, that they may be, as truths, the conclusions of other processes to wit, the inductions of experience.
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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
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Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
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