Ian Hacking Quotes on Knowledge
Ian Hacking was a Canadian philosopher of science whose work bridged the analytic and historical traditions in the philosophy of science. This page collects quotes attributed to Ian Hacking on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ian Hacking:
“Categories of people come into existence at the same time as kinds of people come into being.”
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Attributed to Ian Hacking:
“Probability is double-faced from the start: aleatory and epistemic.”
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Attributed to Ian Hacking:
“Looping effects describe how classifications change those they classify.”
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Attributed to Ian Hacking:
“Reasoning styles bring with them new ways of being a candidate for truth or falsehood.”
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Attributed to Ian Hacking:
“Statistics has helped to determine the form of laws of nature and what counts as a person.”