We Do Not Know. We Can Only

The Old Scientific Ideal Of Episteme - Of Absolutely Certain, Demonstrable Knowledge - Has Proved To Be An Idol. The Demand For Scientific Objectivity Makes It Inevitable That Every Scientific Statement Must Remain Tentative For Ever.

To Give A Causal Explanation Of An Event Means To Deduce A Statement Which Describes It, Using As Premises Of The Deduction One Or More Universal Laws, Together With Certain Singular Statements, The Initial Conditions ... We Have Thus Two Different Kinds Of Statement, Both Of Which Are Necessary Ingredients Of A Complete Causal Explanation.

But It Is Certainly Not Possible To Insist On One Hand That The Formalism Is Complete And To Insist On The Other Hand That Its Application To 'the Actual' Actually Demands A Step Which Cannot Be Derived From It.

Do Not Allow Your Dreams Of A Beautiful World To Lure You Away From The Claims Of Men Who Suffer Here And Now. Our Fellow Men Have A Claim To Our Help; No Generation Must Be Sacrificed For The Sake Of Future Generations.

I Personally Call The Type Of Government Which Can Be Removed Without Violence 'democracy,' And The Other, 'tyranny.'.