Ernest Nagel Quotes on Truth
Ernest Nagel was a Czech-American philosopher of science and one of the leading representatives of logical empiricism in the United States. This page collects quotes attributed to Ernest Nagel on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ernest Nagel:
“Science is the systematic refinement of common knowledge.”
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Attributed to Ernest Nagel:
“To explain is to deduce a phenomenon from general laws and initial conditions.”
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Attributed to Ernest Nagel:
“Reduction unites the sciences without dissolving their distinctions.”
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Attributed to Ernest Nagel:
“Probabilistic reasoning is essential to all empirical inquiry.”
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Attributed to Ernest Nagel:
“Naturalism, properly understood, is the philosophy of the scientific intelligence.”