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Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

Ian Hacking
Mean, Commitment, Acceptance
Ian Hacking (1983). “Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

Ian Hacking
Future, Cutting, Done
The Emergence of Probability Am Absent Family of Ideas (p. 3)

When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.

Ian Hacking
Land, People, Needs
Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

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