Estava eu lendo o The Decline of the West, do Oswald Spengler (de que falarei num dos próximos posts), quando encontrei a seguinte passagem, que serve de adendo ou confirmação ao que se disse no post sobre indução:
Nature-laws are forms of the known in which an aggregate of individual cases are brought together as a unit of higher degree. Living Time is ignored - that is, it does not matter whether, when or how often the case arises, for the question is not of chronological sequence but of mathematical consequence. But in the consciousness that no power in the world can shake this calculation lies our will to command over Nature. That is Faustian. It is only from this standpoint that miracles appear as breaches of the laws of Nature. Magian man saw in them merely the exercise of a power that was not common to all, not in any way a contradiction of the laws of Nature. And Classical man, according to Protagoras, was only the measure and not the creator of things - a view that unconsciously forgoes all conquest of Nature through the discovery and application of laws.
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