Science Probes; It Does Not Prove.

Logic Can Often Be Reversed, But The Effect Does Not Precede The Cause.

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.

Synaptic Summation Is The Technical Term Used In Neurophysiology For Those Instances In Which Some Neuron C Is Fired Only By A Combination Of Neurons A And B.

Let's Not Pretend That Mental Phenomena Can Be Mapped On To The Characteristics Of Billiard Balls.

Science, Like Art, Religion, Commerce, Warfare, And Even Sleep, Is Based On Presuppositions. It Differs, However, From Most Other Branches Of Human Activity In That Not Only Are The Pathways Of Scientific Thought Determined By The Presuppositions Of The Scientists But Their Goals Are The Testing And Revision Of Old Presuppositions And The Creation Of New.