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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them. Ian Hacking

People Matter Extraordinarily Settling Ways Evolved About Issues Precise Them Things

We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images. Ian Hacking

People Other Way About Clearly Talk Images Need

Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing. Ian Hacking

Science Writing Enthusiasm Distinguished About Flair

Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century. Ian Hacking

Science Will Most Brain Century Popular Twenty-First Early

Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings. Ian Hacking

History You Emotions Long First Feeling Feelings Sense Ability Direct Emotion Come Most Also Human The History Of Race Then Human Race

A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order. Ian Hacking

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life. Ian Hacking

Life Secrecy Sides Private Public Public Life

Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian. Ian Hacking

People Events Revolution Despite Rightly About Proper Objects Clear Study Fair Also Affairs Historian American Revolutions Rhetoric Which Certain American Revolution Amount Second Consensus

It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules. Ian Hacking

Great Important Rules Important Decisions Make Reduce Decisions Urge Them Hard

Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help. Ian Hacking

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope? Immanuel Kant

Hope Ought Know

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power. Imre Lakatos

Truth Faith Science Power Energy Way Must Lies Vocal More Supporters Judging Sciences Social Then Theory Social Sciences Even Number

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. Imre Lakatos

Commitment Crime Virtue Blind Intellectual Theory

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. Imre Lakatos

Experiment Relation Indeed Between Naive Sharply Theory Differs

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. Imre Lakatos

Positive Negative Research Programmes Characterized Besides Also

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. Imre Lakatos

Clash About Point Mere Between Epistemology Technical

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. Irwin Edman

Myth Least American Themselves Created Standardized Largely

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. Isaiah Berlin

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. J. L. Austin

Word Language Claim Ordinary Certainly Such A Thing Thing Last

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. J. L. Austin

History Word Back Latin Pretty Pictures Come How Very Models Done Going Often The History Of Happen Commonly Things Things Happen

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement. J. L. Austin

Me Thought Made Long Philosophy Say Pleasures Reaching Subject Discovery Owe Afforded Often Co-Operation Barren Fun Agreement Satisfaction

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. J. L. Austin

Character General Ritual Conventional Which Heir Ceremonial Ill Acts

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