Ian Hacking Quotes
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
Ian Hacking
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
Manu Bennett
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
Mako
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
Dale T. Mortensen
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
Waylon Jennings
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I want to have an impact on my son.
Orlando Bloom
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The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here.
David Plouffe
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In America, we have bible-reading applications: every single one of those applications asks permission to turn on your microphone, your camera; it wants permission to read your e-mails and the right to send e-mails wherever it chooses.
John McAfee
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The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
Antonio Machado
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
Vicki Lawrence
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I know not what fear is, nor I know not what it is that I fear now; I fear not the hastening of my death, and yet I do fear the increase of the disease... my weakness is from nature, who hath but her measure, my strength is from God, who possesses and distributes infinitely.
John Donne
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A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
Ian Hacking
