A Distribution Is Just If It Arises

Instead Of Trying To Prove Your Opponent Wrong, Try To See In What Sense He Might Be Right.

A Distribution Is Just If It Arises From Another Just Distribution By Legitimate Means.

One Way To Determine If A View Is Inadequate Is To Check Its Consequences In Particular Cases, Sometimes Extreme Ones, But If Someone Always Decided What The Result Should Be In Any Case By Applying The Given View Itself, This Would Preclude Discovering It Did Not Correctly Fit The Case. Readers Who Hold They Would Plug In To The Machine Should Notice Whether Their First Impulse Was Not To Do So, Followed Later By The Thought That Since Only Experiences Could Matter, The Machine Would Be All Right After All.

I Think Philosophers Can Do Things Akin To Theoretical Scientists, In That, Having Read About Empirical Data, They Too Can Think Of What Hypotheses And Theories Might Account For That Data. So There's A Continuity Between Philosophy And Science In That Way.

In A Free System Any Large, Popular, Revolutionary Movement Should Be Able To Bring About Its Ends By Such A Voluntary Process. As More And More People See How It Works More And More Will Wish To Participate In Or Support It. And So It Will Grow, Without Being Necessary To Force Everyone Or A Majority Or Anyone Into The Pattern.