The Final Arbitrator In Philosophy Is Not

Why Should There Be The Method Of Science? There Is Not Just One Way To Build A House, Or Even To Grow Tomatoes. We Should Not Expect Something As Motley As The Growth Of Knowledge To Be Strapped To One Methodology.

A Single Observation That Is Inconsistent With Some Generalization Points To The Falsehood Of The Generalization, And Thereby 'points To Itself'.

Much Early Alchemy Seems To Have Been Adventure. You Heated And Mixed And Burnt And Pounded And To See What Would Happen. An Adventure Might Suggest An Hypothesis That Can Subsequently Be Tested, But Adventure Is Prior To Theory.

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.

The Best Reaction To A Paradox Is To Invent A Genuinely New And Deep Idea.