It Is Not Impossible To Think That

By No Amount Of Reasoning Can We Altogether Eliminate All Contingency From Our World. Moreover, Pure Speculation Alone Will Not Enable Us To Get A Determinate Picture Of The Existing World. We Must Eliminate Some Of The Conflicting Possibilities, And This Can Be Brought About Only By Experiment And Observation.

Conservatism Clings To What Has Been Established, Fearing That, Once We Begin To Question The Beliefs That We Have Inherited, All The Values Of Life Will Be Destroyed.

Liberalism Regards Life As An Adventure In Which We Must Take Risks In New Situation, In Which There Is No Guarantee That The New Will Always Be The Good Or The True, In Which Progress Is A Precarious Achievement Rather Than Inevitability.

The Picture Which The Philosopher Draws Of The World Is Surely Not One In Which Every Stroke Is Necessitated By Pure Logic.

It Has Generally Been Assumed That Of Two Opposing Systems Of Philosophy, E.g., Realism And Idealism, One Only Can Be True And One Must Be False; And So Philosophers Have Been Hopelessly Divided On The Question, Which Is The True One.