Statistics Began As The Systematic Study Of

Why Should There Be The Method Of Science? There Is Not Just One Way To Build A House, Or Even To Grow Tomatoes. We Should Not Expect Something As Motley As The Growth Of Knowledge To Be Strapped To One Methodology.

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

Many Modern Philosophers Claim That Probability Is Relation Between An Hypothesis And The Evidence For It.

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

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