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Book cover for Scientific Method: A Historical and Philosophical Introduction
Henri Poincaré declared, of the mathematical calculus of probability, that without it ‘science would be impossible’ (Poincaré, 1952: 186). And Bertrand Russell was equally forthright: ‘we cannot understand scientific method,’ he said, ...more
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Ian Hacking
“There are two basic ways to criticize an argument:
■ Challenge the premises-show that at least one is false.
■ Challenge the reasoning-show that the premises are not a good reason for the conclusion.”
Ian Hacking, An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic

“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
Tina Fey, Bossypants

Edward Hallett Carr
“Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.”
Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?

Pierre Bourdieu
“Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.”
Pierre Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice

Karl Mannheim
“ideology signifies a phenomenon intermediate between a simple lie at one pole, and an error, which is the result of a distorted and faulty conceptual apparatus, at the other.”
Karl Mannheim

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