Probability Fractions Arise From Our Knowledge And

Until The Seventeenth Century There Was No Concept Of Evidence With Which To Pose The Problem Of Induction!

Statistics Began As The Systematic Study Of Quantitative Facts About The State.

Opinion Is The Companion Of Probability Within The Medieval Epistemology.

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.

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.