Hans Reichenbach Quotes on Knowledge
Hans Reichenbach was a German-American philosopher of science and the founder of the Berlin Circle of logical empiricists. This page collects quotes attributed to Hans Reichenbach on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Hans Reichenbach:
“Probability is the language of induction.”
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Attributed to Hans Reichenbach:
“We must distinguish the context of discovery from the context of justification.”
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Attributed to Hans Reichenbach:
“The aim of philosophy is to clarify the language of science.”
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“Hans Reichenbach (1951). The rise of scientific philosophy . University of California Press. p. 326. ISBN 0520010558 .”
If along the path of truth, success (which was often near-failure unnoticed) is subjected to the same scrutiny and desire for improvement as failure, we may find ourselves in closer proximity to trees. -
“Although it is admitted that certain differences cannot be verified by experiment, we should not infer from this fact that they do not exist. ...we are accused of having confused subjective inability with objective indeterminacy .”
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“...the order of betweenness does not depend on mutual distances... betweenness is purely a relational order.”
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“...the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and cannot lead to an epistemological priority of Euclidean geometry, in contrast to the views of certain authors.”
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“Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities.”
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“...the mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional condition can replace the definition of congruence.”
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