Opinion Is The Companion Of

Every Once In A While, Something Happens To You That Makes You Realise That The Human Race Is Not Quite As Bad As It So Often Seems To Be.

From Any Vocabulary Of Ideas We Can Build Other Ideas By Formal Combinations Of Signs. But Not Any Set Of Ideas Will Be Instructive. One Must Have The Right Ideas.

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

Philosophers Of Science Constantly Discuss Theories And Representation Of Reality, But Say Almost Nothing About Experiment, Technology, Or The Use Of Knowledge To Alter The World. This Is Odd, Because 'experimental Method' Used To Be Just Another Name For Scientific Method.... I Hope [to] Initiate A Back-to-bacon Movement, In Which We Attend More Seriously To Experimental Science. Experimentation Has A Life Of Its Own.

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.