Cutting Up Fowl To Predict

Philosophers Of Science Constantly Discuss Theories And Representation Of Reality, But Say Almost Nothing About Experiment, Technology, Or The Use Of Knowledge To Alter The World. This Is Odd, Because 'experimental Method' Used To Be Just Another Name For Scientific Method.... I Hope [to] Initiate A Back-to-bacon Movement, In Which We Attend More Seriously To Experimental Science. Experimentation Has A Life Of Its Own.

Acceptance Means Commitment, Among Other Things.

From Any Vocabulary Of Ideas We Can Build Other Ideas By Formal Combinations Of Signs. But Not Any Set Of Ideas Will Be Instructive. One Must Have The Right Ideas.

Many Modern Philosophers Claim That Probability Is Relation Between An Hypothesis And The Evidence For It.

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.