What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

  • -- David Eagleman 大卫·伊格曼

当我走进一家书店时,总是让我感到惊讶的是,你能找到的确定无疑的书的数量。作者讲了一些故事,好像它是真的,但他们没有任何证据证明它是真的!

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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

这样的证据并不是产生信念的唯一证据;虽然实证主义坚持认为,它是唯一一种应该产生如此高程度的信心,因为所有的头脑都有或可以通过他们的协议。

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.

因为我从来没有,也永远不会看到,存在的证据的停止必然是存在的停止的证据。