Science Is Not A Substitute For Common

It Is Within Science Itself, And Not In Some Prior Philosophy, That Reality Is To Be Identified And Described.

Nonbeing Must In Some Sense Be, Otherwise What Is It That There Is Not? This Tangled Doctrine Might Be Nicknamed Plato's Beard; Historically It Has Proved Tough, Frequently Dulling The Edge Of Occam's Razor.

To Call A Posit A Posit Is Not To Patronize It. A Posit Can Be Unavoidable Except At The Cost Of Other No Less Artificial Expedients. Everything To Which We Concede Existence Is A Posit From The Standpoint Of A Description Of The Theory-building Process, And Simultaneously Real From The Standpoint Of The Theory That Is Being Built.

Science Is Not A Substitute For Common Sense, But An Extension Of It.

To Define An Expression Is, Paradoxically Speaking, To Explain How To Get Along Without It. To Define Is To Eliminate.