6.CONJECTURE AND REFUTE
*Make a complete survey of possible objections to your position,Looking for counterexample and subtle mistakes .Following a suggestion of Karl Popper , philosophy is a system of conjecture and refutation .Seek bold hypotheses and seek disconfirmation of your favorite positions.In this way ,by a process of elimination,you will negatively and indirectly and gradually approach the truth . In this regard seek to understand your opponent 's position for as John Sluart Mill wrote "he who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that .If he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side. If he does not so much as know what they are he has no ground for preferrig either opinion" Mill furher ugers us to face squarely the best arguments our opponent can muster for until we have met those argument we can never be sure that our position is superior. The truth seeker "must know(the opponent's argument ) in their most plausible and persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of else he will never really possess him self of the portion of the truth which meets and removes that difficulty"
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