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Politics is often referred to as the art of the possible, but the category of possibility belongs much more to natural science with its focus on modelling and probability. Politics is not the science of the possible, but the art of the actual.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
According to Popper, our solutions will always lead to new problems,
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
Or ce principe cardinal s’applique parfaitement à la compréhension du XXe siècle, dont le cours tragique s’organisa autour de l’affrontement entre les nations et les empires, entre la démocratie et le totalitarisme. La dénonciation des thèses raciales de Gobineau, comme la critique du socialisme, qui sacrifie la liberté à l’égalité, souligne par an
... See moreNicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)
axiom of political science in that country that the only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
A theory cannot be verified. To paraphrase baseball coach Yogi Berra again, past data has a lot of good in it, but it is the bad side that is bad. It can only be provisionally accepted. A theory that falls outside of these two categories is not a theory. A theory that does not present a set of conditions under which it would be considered wrong wou
... See moreNassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
What matters is not what is most probable in the theory but what is most probable to be observed.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
