By Legend And Perhaps By Nature Philosophers

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

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

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.

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.

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.