Friday, May 10, 2013

Assent to the Evidence


This should go without saying, but, sadly, these days it very much needs to be said:
"Science … means more than a set of conclusions; it means also a set of methods and intellectual habits. The most important of these habits is adherence to a rule that is felt to be at once intellectual and moral, the rule of adjusting one's assent to the evidence.
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— The Yale philosopher Brand Blanshard


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