rules amended, inferences rejected
"The left has a stranglehold on our universities. Professors are forcing our kids to submit to their pro-glacier agenda." -Colbert ReportColbert reports the amazing story in which a college student is forced to think about something other than what he believes in.
Rudy Garns
philosopher, educator, citizen
"...rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is ammended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend. The process of justification is the delicate one of making mutual adjustments between rules and accepted inferences...." (Nelson Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast)
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