Wesley Salmon Quotes on Truth
Wesley Charles Salmon was an American philosopher of science and one of the leading writers on scientific explanation, causation, and induction in the second half of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Wesley Salmon on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Wesley Salmon:
“To explain is to fit a phenomenon into the causal structure of the world.”
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Attributed to Wesley Salmon:
“Statistical relevance lies at the heart of probabilistic explanation.”
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Attributed to Wesley Salmon:
“Causation is the propagation of structure through space and time.”
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Attributed to Wesley Salmon:
“Induction is the difficulty that makes the philosophy of science interesting.”
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Attributed to Wesley Salmon:
“Science seeks not certainty but the best supported claims.”