Molecular Biology Has Routinely Taken Problematic Things

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.

In Each Case You Settle On An Act. Doing Nothing At All Counts As An Act.

When Land And Its Tillage Are The Basis Of Taxation, One Need Not Care Exactly How Many People There Are.

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.

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