Quotes by Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby ‘points to itself’.

Generalization

Inconsistent

Observation

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

Acceptance

Commitment

Mean

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Armchairs

Legends

Philosopher

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

Cutting

Done

Future

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

Hacking

Race

Realising

Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be ‘observed’ are manipulated to produce a new phenomena [sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.

Principles

Reality

Science

From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas.

Combination

Ideas

Vocabulary

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Curiosity

Hacking

World

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

Agriculture

Bombs

People

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

Cases

Doing Nothing

Settling

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Acceptance

Adventure

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Arise

Armchairs

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Claims

Combination

Commitment

Companion

Curiosity

Cutting

Doing Nothing

Done

Evidence

Facts

Finals

Fractions

Future

Games

Generalization

Hacking

House

Ideas

Ignorance

Important

Inconsistent

Land

Legends

Made

Math

Mean

Medieval

Might

Modern

Moral

Needs

Observation

Odds

Opinion

Paradox

People

Philosopher

Philosophy

Player

Plutonium

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Quotes by Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby ‘points to itself’.

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be ‘observed’ are manipulated to produce a new phenomena [sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.

From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

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