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But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

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We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.

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It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

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The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.

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It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

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