Hans Reichenbach Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.”
-- Hans Reichenbach

#Motivational #Errors #Path
“The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from individual experiences; the statement means that rubbing wood in this way will always produce fire. The art of discovery is therefore the art of correct generalization. ... The separation of relevant from irrelevant factors is the beginning of knowledge.”
-- Hans Reichenbach

#Art #Knowledge #Mean
“Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.”
-- Hans Reichenbach

#Philosophy #Science #Inseparable
“The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical analysis of the completed theory, including the establishing its validity. That is, he is not interested in the context of discovery, but in the context of justification.”
-- Hans Reichenbach

#Discovery #Analysis #Looks
“It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.”
-- Hans Reichenbach

#Space #Philosopher #Problem
“The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction states, never preinteraction states.”
-- Hans Reichenbach

#Past #Order #Isolation
“You see, there is no more purpose or meaning in the world than you put into it.”
-- Hans Reichenbach

#Purpose #World

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