Every Once In A While,

Probability Fractions Arise From Our Knowledge And From Our Ignorance.

By Legend And Perhaps By Nature Philosophers Are More Accustomed To The Armchair Than The Workbench.

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

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

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.