"[Depression is] common to all people with an excessively logical education who work in applied mathematics: It is a kind of pessimism resulting from an inability to believe in what people call the Principle of Induction, or the principle of the Uniformity of Nature. Since one cannot prove, or even render probable a priori, that the sun should rise tomorrow, we cannot really believe it shall."
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Walter Pitts
Walter Pitts (23 April 1923 – 14 May 1969) was an American logician who worked in the field of computational neuroscience.
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