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Some Tools Of Thought Are So Blunt That They Are Almost Useless; Others Are So Sharp That They Are Dangerous. But The Wise Man Will Have The Use Of Both Kinds.

The Pathology Is To Want Control, Not That You Ever Get It, Because Of Course You Never Do.

But Epistemology Is Always And Inevitably Personal. The Point Of The Probe Is Always In The Heart Of The Explorer: What Is My Answer To The Question Of The Nature Of Knowing?

Science Sometimes Improves Hypotheses And Sometimes Disproves Them. But Proof Would Be Another Matter And Perhaps Never Occurs Except In The Realms Of Totally Abstract Tautology. We Can Sometimes Say That If Such And Such Abstract Suppositions Or Postulates Are Given, Then Such And Such Abstract Suppositions Or Postulates Are Given, Then Such And Such Must Follow Absolutely. But The Truth About What Can Be Perceived Or Arrived At By Induction From Perception Is Something Else Again.

Yes, Metaphor. That's How The Whole Fabric Of Mental Interconnections Holds Together. Metaphor Is Right At The Bottom Of Being Alive.