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Ian Hacking, né en 1936 à Vancouver , est un épistémologue et philosophe des sciences canadien.

✵ 18. février 1936
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Ian Hacking: Citations en anglais

“When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.”

Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 12, Political Arithmetic, p. 103.

“Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.”

Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 12, Political Arithmetic, p. 102.

“Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.”

Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 4, Evidence, p. 31.

“Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.”

Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 14, Equipossibility, p. 132.

“Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.”

Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 3, Opinion, p. 28.

“Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!”

Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 4, Evidence, p. 31.

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