If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.
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The Rationality of Induction, Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. Page 176, last paragraph.David Stove
It was, for all I know, the first deductive theory of the world, the first deductive cosmology: One further step led to theoretical physics, and to the atomic theory.
Parmenides
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be "too clever by half". The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
John Major
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
Saul Kripke
Apart from sex linkage, we know almost nothing at present of linkage in man. Yet it is certain that every defect determined by a single factor must be located in one or other of twenty-three [sic] linkage groups. Each defect must therefore be linked in inheritance with numerous other observable traits, and with some of them is probably linked closely. The search for such linkage will certainly be lengthy, and at first, disappointing.
Ronald Fisher
To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.
Eric Hoffer
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