“The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.”
Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914), p. 86
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American psychiatrist 1867–1923Related quotes
“Physiology, Psychology, Ethics, Political Science, must submit to the same ordeal.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
Evolution and Ethics (1893)
Context: The history of civilization details the steps by which men have succeeded in building up an artificial world within the cosmos. Fragile reed as he may be, man, as Pascal says, is a thinking reed: there lies within him a fund of energy, operating intelligently and so far akin to that which pervades the universe, that it is competent to influence and modify the cosmic process. In virtue of his intelligence the dwarf bends the Titan to his will. In every family, in every polity that has been established, the cosmic process in man has been restrained and otherwise modified by law and custom; in surrounding nature, it has been similarly influenced by the art of the shepherd, the agriculturist, the artisan. As civilization has advanced, so has the extent of this interference increased; until the organized and highly developed sciences and arts of the present day have endowed man with a command over the course of non-human nature greater than that once attributed to the magicians.... a right comprehension of the process of life and of the means of influencing its manifestations is only just dawning upon us. We do not yet see our way beyond generalities; and we are befogged by the obtrusion of false analogies and crude anticipations. But Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, have all had to pass through similar phases, before they reached the stage at which their influence became an important factor in human affairs. Physiology, Psychology, Ethics, Political Science, must submit to the same ordeal. Yet it seems to me irrational to doubt that, at no distant period, they will work as great a revolution in the sphere of practice.<!--pp.83-84
Hans Christian von Baeyer (1938) American physicist
Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 16, Unpacking Information, The computer in the service of physics, p. 138
“I shall endeavor to show that induction is really the inverse process of deduction.”
William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882) English economist and logician
Source: The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method (1874) Vol. 1, p. 14
“Psychologically attention is drainage, whatever it may be physiologically.”
Edwin Boring (1886–1968) American psychologist
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A History of Experimental Psychology, 1929
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Principles of Mathematics (1903), Ch. II: Symbolic Logic, p. 11
1900s
Michel Foucault book Discipline and Punish
Source: Discipline and Punish (1977), Chapter One, The Spectacle of the Scaffold
“Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.”
C. D. Broad (1887–1971) English philosopher
Broad, C.D. (1926). The philosophy of Francis Bacon: An address delivered at Cambridge on the occasion of the Bacon tercentenary, 5 October, 1926. Cambridge: University Press, p. 67. The quotation is a paraphrase of the concluding sentence in the monograph: May we venture to hope that when Bacon's next centenary is celebrated the great work which he set going will be completed; and that Inductive Reasoning, which has long been the glory of Science, will have ceased to be the scandal of Philosophy?