Philosophical Standardism : An Empiricist Approach to Philosophical Methodology [first edition]

Propounds an unorthodox approach to philosophy that is predicated on interpreting generalizations not as universals, but as standards, that is, how things stand as a rule but not always. It is not to be confused with statistics or probability. The approach sidesteps pretensions of necessity to allow a more modest and cautious perspective that asks what our experience of the world indicates to be the normal course of affairs. No subject index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.