Probability Fractions Arise From Our

When Land And Its Tillage Are The Basis Of Taxation, One Need Not Care Exactly How Many People There Are.

By Legend And Perhaps By Nature Philosophers Are More Accustomed To The Armchair Than The Workbench.

The Important Thing Is To Be Able To Understand Anyone Who Has Something Useful To Say. - There Is A General Moral Here. Be Very Careful And Very Clear About What You Say. But Do Not Be Dogmatic About Your Own Language. Be Prepared To Express Any Careful Thought In The Language Your Audience Will Understand. And Be Prepared To Learn From Someone Who Talks A Language With Which You Are Not Familiar.

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.

We Favor Hypotheses For Their Simplicity And Explanatory Power, Much As The Architect Of The World Might Have Done In Choosing Which Possibility To Create.