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

If You Were Just Intent On Killing People You Could Do Better With A Bomb Made Of Agricultural Fertiliser.

Much Early Alchemy Seems To Have Been Adventure. You Heated And Mixed And Burnt And Pounded And To See What Would Happen. An Adventure Might Suggest An Hypothesis That Can Subsequently Be Tested, But Adventure Is Prior To Theory.

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

Cutting Up Fowl To Predict The Future Is, If Done Honestly And With As Little Interpretation As Possible, A Kind Of Randomization. But Chicken Guts Are Hard To Read And Invite Flights Of Fancy Or Corruption.