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Nicholas Rescher Quotes

1928–2024 Germany

Nicholas Rescher (15 July 1928 – 5 January 2024) was a German-American philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh.

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One has to optimize something, some feature or aspect of things. And if this factor is to be ... self-validating and self-sustaining, then the clearly most promising candidate would seem to be intelligence itself.

I have never thought for a moment that if you cannot say it with numbers that it just is not worth saying. But all the same, I do firmly believe that where you cannot put numbers to work you will understand the matter better and more clearly for being able to explain why.

Epistemetrics (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nicholas Rescher (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.