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'We found first that the law of causality,
as usually stated by philosophers, is false, and is
not employed in science. We then considered the
nature of scientific laws, and found that, instead
of stating that one event A is always followed by
another event B, they stated functional relations between
certain events at certain times, which we called determinants,
and other events at earlier or later times or at the
same time. We were unable to find any a priori
category involved: the existence of scientific
laws appeared as a purely empirical fact, not necessarily
universal, except in a trivial and scientifically useless
form. We found that a system with one set of
determinants may very likely have other sets of a
quite different kind, that, for example, a mechanically
determined system may also be teleologically or volitionally
determined. '
'...when it comes to risk, you have to think for yourself. That’s the
only way to cut through the noise. Society, in fact, needs to make a
shift toward prioritizing understanding risk so that we don’t let the
experts drive us crazy.
“In the good old times people learned how to read
and to write. That’s no longer sufficient in the high tech twenty-first
century,”'
..'une page, dans son système, doit, s'adressant au coup d'oeil qui précède et enveloppe la lecture, "intimer" le mouvement de la composition; faire pressentir, par une sorte d'intuition matérielle, par une harmonie préétablie entre nos divers modes de perception, ou entre les différences de marche de nos sens,- ce qui va se produire à l'intelligence.'
- 'The paper intervenes
each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting
a succession of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing,
of regular sonorous lines or verse – rather prismatic subdivisions
of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last,
in some precise intellectual performance, that is in variable
positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread,
because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.'