"Now all hypotheses, by definition, involve make-believe. Many of them...involve sort-crossing, and are therefore metaphors. The conclusion ... is to try to adopt the actual technique of Plato...Then, whether we suppose that man is a state, or that the world is a machine, or that man is a wolf, the risk of confusing the facts of one sort with those of the other will be lessened."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Colin Murray Turbayne, The Myth of Metaphor (1962) p. 53.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hypothesis
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Hypothesis
8 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Hypothesis →
Related Quotes
"Prof. Michael Foster has somewhere said that ‘hypothesis is the salt of science.’ Without hypothesis there is no poss…"
"The functional validity of a working hypothesis is not a priori certain, because often it is initially based on intui…"
"One thinker no less brilliant than the heresiarch himself, but in the orthodox tradition, advanced a most daring hypo…"
"There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result…"
"It is human nature to avoid being consumed by hypotheticals until they are staring us squarely in the face."
"I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your…"
"The truth is, that these writings of mine were meant to protect the arguments of Parmenides against those who make fu…"
"Carbonization drives off moisture... with... low molecular weight organic compounds... from extractives and... pyroly…"
"has not been generally used as a feedstock in simple thermal cracking... because the decomposition temperature is too…"
"[A]n overall model for the simulation of pyrolysis reactors should... include the heat, momentum, s differential equa…"