Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. - Ian Hacking - Quotesmemo.com

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Ian Hacking

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

Ignorance, Arise, Fractions, Probability, Knowledge

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Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

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Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

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Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

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Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because 'experimental method' used to be just another name for scientific method. . . . I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own.

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