In which Max looks back at a road not taken in 20th century philosophy of science: Stephen Toulmin’s Wittgenstein-influenced “practice turn”

In which Max revisits Goethe’s weird claim about America lacking basalt with some expert help

In which Max asks why Goethe once said in a poem that America has no basalt (huh?)

In which Max considers the suggestion that archeology is distinctive in its frequent use of arguments from absence, and finds it wanting