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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
~ Chauncey Wright
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Agreed
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Senses
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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
~ Chauncey Wright
Any
Civilization
Combined
Energies
Genius
Individual
Inherent
Men
Owe
Progress
Rather
Science
Tendency
Than
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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
~ Chauncey Wright
Also
Among
Causes
Criterion
Distinguish
Effects
Ends
How
Know
May
Means
Which
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If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.
~ Chauncey Wright
Assumption
Become
Concrete
Direction
Experience
Further
General
Give
Inherent
Only
Reached
Research
Science
Systematic
Then
Truths
Ultimate
Until
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Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
~ Chauncey Wright
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Better
Cares
Confirmed
Convinced
Evidence
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Many
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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
~ Chauncey Wright
Come
Even
Habit
Life
Limited
Made
Move
Natural
Natural Selection
Nature
Never
Organic
Part
Pass
Phenomena
Rather
Selection
Should
Stone
Than
Upwards
Very
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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
~ Chauncey Wright
Agreements
Belief
Confidence
Degree
Evidence
High
Kind
Made
Minds
Only
Ought
Produce
Produces
Though
Through
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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
~ Chauncey Wright
Accidental
Accidents
Causes
Intelligence
Man
Only
Relatively
Science
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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
~ Chauncey Wright
Caring
Following
Frustrated
Generally
Habits
Her
Indeed
Inform
Inherent
Motives
Nature
Our
Ours
Pains
Pleasure
Put
Reasons
Shall
She
Sometimes
Them
Us
Which
Why
Wills
Without
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The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
~ Chauncey Wright
Aspirations
Desires
Emotions
Fears
Form
Human
Human Emotions
Intellectual
Philosophy
Proper
Questions
Taking
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
~ Chauncey Wright
Able
Compulsion
Ignorance
Nothing
Receive
Resist
Science
Them
Truths
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Chauncey Wright
Profession
Philosopher
BirthDate
10 September, 1830
DeathDate
12 September, 1875
Country
United States
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