3 Quotes by David Stove

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

But the stupidity which is common to all such “explanations” is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory – such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power – could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.

A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regain the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first.