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Experimental Work Provides The Strongest Evidence For Scientific Realism. This Is Not Because We Test Hypotheses About Entities. It Is Because Entities That In Principle Cannot Be 'observed' Are Manipulated To Produce A New Phenomena [sic] And To Investigate Other Aspects Of Nature.

The Final Arbitrator In Philosophy Is Not How We Think But What We Do.

Thers Is This Wonderful Iconoclast At Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, Who Says That Our Mathematics Is The Result Of A Random Walk, By Which He Means What We Call Mathematics. Likewise, I Think, For The Sciences.

Why Should There Be The Method Of Science? There Is Not Just One Way To Build A House, Or Even To Grow Tomatoes. We Should Not Expect Something As Motley As The Growth Of Knowledge To Be Strapped To One Methodology.

Molecular Biology Has Routinely Taken Problematic Things Under Its Wing Without Altering Core Ideas.