Simon Blackburn: Quotes about the world

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“Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.”

Simon Blackburn

Source: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 225

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“The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to be made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.”

Simon Blackburn

Source: Think (1999), Chapter One, Knowledge, p. 17

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“A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.”

Simon Blackburn

Source: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 169

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“What underlies our assignment of probabilities in the real world?”

Simon Blackburn

Source: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 212

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“Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there.”

Simon Blackburn

Source: Think (1999), Chapter Two, Mind, p. 78

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