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Elliott Sober

"The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim."

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Elliott Sober

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“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.”
“Leadership is meant merely to be lead-by-example.Anything given extra to support team result is just an icing on the top.”
“A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.”
“At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your parents signed for you and vouched for you. Then after you had it for a little while you could decide if you were interested in taking lessons or you could also get your own gear. Or you could turn that instrument in for another one and try something else. So that's how I got my hands on the guitar.”

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“No club moves me from Chelsea until Chelsea wants me to move because I want to be where I am loved.”
“It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.”

Source : Maureen Dowd (2005). “Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide”, p.112, Penguin
“Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.”
“The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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