There Are No Monotone "values"

Desired Substance, Things, Patterns, Or Sequences Of Experience That Are In Some Sense "good" For The Organism - Items Of Diet, Conditions Of Life, Temperature, Entertainment, Sex, And So Forth - Are Never Such That More Of The Something Is Always Better Than Less Of The Something. Rather, For All Objects And Experiences, There Is A Quantity That Has Optimum Value. Above That Quantity, The Variable Becomes Toxic. To Fall Below That Value Is To Be Deprived.

What Is The Pattern That Connects The Crab To The Lobster And The Primrose To The Orchid, And All Of Them To Me, And Me To You?

We Do Not Know Enough About How The Present Will Lead Into The Future.

Multiple Descriptions Are Better Than One.

It Is, I Claim, Nonsense To Say That It Does Not Matter Which Individual Man Acted As The Nucleus For The Change. It Is Precisely This That Makes History Unpredictable Into The Future.