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“Let the facts speak for themselves”; so runs an old but not very wise saying. For whoever just lets the facts speak for themselves will either be enveloped in silence or be deafened with the noise. That, at least, will be the thesis of this chapter.
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He did not merely inspect, he interacted: he was not content to appreciate the heart passively, he wished to tinker with it in every conceivable way.
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For further discussion of these and related developments see Singer (1950, 151–155 and 164–168).
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See also Hall (1966, ch. III).
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Paraphrase of Galileo’s Theorem II, Proposition II (1950, 167).
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Lund, M.D. (2018). Hypotheses Facta Fingunt. In: Lund, M.D. (eds) Perception and Discovery. Synthese Library, vol 389. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69745-1_13
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