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I have never thought for a moment that if you cannot say it with numbers that it just is not worth saying. But all the same, I do firmly believe that where you cannot put numbers to work you will understand the matter better and more clearly for being able to explain why.

Nicholas Rescher

One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.

Nicholas Rescher

Nicholas Rescher

Nicholas Rescher

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Born: July 15, 1928

Died: January 5, 2024 (aged 95)

Bio: Nicholas Rescher was a German-American philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh. He was the Chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science and has formerly served as Chairman of the Philosophy Department.

Known for:

Paradoxes (2001)
Process metaphysics (1996)
Philosophical dialectics (2006)
On Leibniz (2003)

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