David Stove

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David Charles Stove (15 September 19272 June 1994) was an Australian philosopher of science.

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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.
    • The Rationality of Induction, Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. Page 99, first paragraph.
  • If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.
    • The Rationality of Induction, Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. Page 176, last paragraph.
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