Reasoning Alone Cannot Decipher the World
By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a determinate picture of the existing world. We must eliminate some of the conflicting possibilities, and this can be brought about only by experiment and observation.
Morris Raphael Cohen, Reason and Nature: an Essay on the Meaning of Scientific Method? (1959)
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Only experiment and observation can decide what's true.
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