Bertrand Russell
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We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call hard data and soft data. This distinction is a matter of degree, and must not be pressed; but if not taken too seriously it may help to make the situation clear. I mean by hard data those which resist the solvent influence of critical reflection, and by soft data those which, under the operation of this process, become to our minds more or less doubtful. ✨ Bertrand Russell (1914). Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy

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