Some Communities Will Be Abandoned, Others Will

What Hadn't Been Realized In The Literature Until Now Is That Merely To Describe How Severely Something Has Been Tested In The Past Itself Embodies Inductive Assumptions, Even As A Statement About The Past.

Our Principles Fix What Our Life Stands For, Our Aims Create The Light Our Life Is Bathed In, And Our Rationality, Both Individual And Coordinate, Defines And Symbolizes The Distance We Have Come From Mere Animality. It Is By These Means That Our Lives Come To More Than What They Instrumentally Yield. And By Meaning More, Our Lives Yield More.

Utopia Is A Meta-utopia: The Environment In Which Utopian Experiments May Be Tried Out; The Environment In Which People Are Free To Do Their Own Thing; The Environment Which Must, To A Great Extent, Be Realized First If More Particular Utopian Visions Are To Be Realized Stably.

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.

Why Are Philosophers Intent On Forcing Others To Believe Things? Is That A Nice Way To Behave Towards Someone?