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A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regain the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first.

David Stove

But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power - could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.

David Stove

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

David Stove

David Stove

David Stove

Born: September 15, 1927

Died: June 2, 1994 (aged 66)

Bio: David Charles Stove was an Australian philosopher.

Known for:

Darwinian Fairytales
Popper and After (1982)
Against the Idols of the Age
The rationality of induction (1986)

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