I gave her five dollars and she looked at it and said:Anything you want, mister, is yours. Is there anybody you dont want to see? What dya mean crime? I asked him. Is it any crime for a gal to get tired of her old man and want to trade him in on a new model? It is only when the instances, being indefinitely multiplied and varied, continue to suggest the same result, that this result acquires any high degree of independent value. If there are but two instances, A B C and A D E, though these instances have no antecedent in common except A, yet as the effect may possibly have been produced in the two cases by different causes, the result is at most only a slight probability in favor of A; there may be causation, but it is almost equally probable that there was only a coincidence. But the oftener we repeat the observation, varying the circumstances, the more we advance toward a solution of this doubt. For if we try A F G, A H K, etc., all unlike one another except in containing the circumstance A, and if we find the effecta entering into the result in all these cases, we must suppose one of two things, either that it is caused by A, or that it has as many different causes as there are instances. With each addition, therefore, to the number of instances, the presumption is strengthened in favor of A. The inquirer, ofcourse, will not neglect, if an opportunity present itself, to exclude A from some one of these combinations, from A H K for instance, and by trying H K separately, appeal to the Method of Difference in aid of the Method of Agreement. By the Method of Difference alone can it be ascertained that A is the cause of a; but that it is either the cause, or another effect of the same cause, may be placed beyond any reasonable doubt by the Method of Agreement, provided the instances are very numerous as well as sufficiently various. You sure? Why cant I go back with you? Mom, she told me she wanted to... 87 Subtraries: This man came around with his pony at around three in the afternoon. It was a brown and white Shetland with a big saddle on it so that two kids could take a ride at the same time, one behind the other. The man was wearing a ragged straw hat, sandals, baggy blue trousers, and a bright green, short-sleeved shirt with a little blue sweater vest open over it. He charged a dollar to take the kids once around the block on his pony. When my sister saw him outside through the lace curtains in Grandmas front room, she started dancing up and down and begging Grandma to let her go on the pony, please. Grandma finished her cigarette and then took my sister outside and watched while the grizzled old man in the straw hat lifted first Annie onto the saddle, and then an eleven-year-old boy Annie had never seen before in her life. Gentry wants immunity. That seems a small price to pay for sewing up a murder. I nodded, and kept on playing. Crandall said:Come on over to the booth and have a drink with us when you get a chance. Daddy abandoned us, my mother said. History of Scientific Ideas, ii., 120-122. We both burst out laughing, much to the annoyance of a stout woman sitting close to the air conditioner and trying to read Proust. Annie raises her eyebrows, and then does a quick impression of the scowling woman, which sets me off on another round of laughter, which causes me to choke on my cappuccino. The woman virtually snorts in disapproval. She snaps her book shut, gathers up her belongings, and storms out of the shop. Annie watches her go, imitating her waddle from the waist up. I keep laughing and choking and finally my sister says,Are you allright, Andy? and I tell her Im fine, and begin laughing and choking all over again. But I dont dare put him on a long leash. He’d certainly bite... She shakes her head. The always acute and often profound author ofAn Outline of Sematology (Mr. B. H. Smart) justly says, Locke will be much more intelligible, if, in the majority of places, we substitute the knowledge of for what he calls ‘the Idea of’ (p. 10). Among the many criticisms on Locke’s use of the word Idea, this is the one which, as it appears to me, most nearly hits the mark; and I quote it for the additional reason that it precisely expresses the point of difference respecting the import of Propositions, between my view and what I have spoken of as the Conceptualist view of them. Where a Conceptualist says that a name or a proposition expresses our Idea of a thing, I should generally say (instead of our Idea) our Knowledge, or Belief, concerning the thing itself..