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

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I Guess My Tendency Is To Think Essentially That The New Wrinkles Won't Do The Job If The Old Major Idea Didn't, And So You Have To Try Something Different. Then Maybe They Can All Be Combined In Some Coherent Piece.

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.

The Scientists Often Have More Unfettered Imaginations Than Current Philosophers Do. Relativity Theory Came As A Complete Surprise To Philosophers, And So Did Quantum Mechanics, And So Did Other Things.