academics, students and others to obtain guidance for how this new
approach works. This will enable the writer to consider and act on
any such suggestions before formal publication. The current plan is
to insert these amendments into this electronic version of the book
first, then to revise and settle the manuscript before formal
publication.
Since this is an interim publication, which will be amended from
time to time, the tables of legislation, cases and names have not been
paginated in this electronic edition. Nor is there yet an index.
Obviously these will be fixed before formal publication.
In any major endeavour one is always heavily in debt. In my case
the emotional creditors include a family who has given me so much
love and colleagues who have given me so much support. I also have
to thank my nephew Stephen Enright-Ward for his assistance with
and input into the chapter on probability and the part dealing with
chaos theory.
There is also a major intellectual liability that I can only
acknowledge since I do not have the means to discharge it. The spirit
of this inquiry came directly from Dr Fred D’Agostino, then my
lecturer in philosophy at the University of New England and now
Director of Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of
Queensland. He guided me in the method or way of thinking that
characterises this book. As with most great teachers, their spirit
endures even long after their words have been mislaid. Needless to
say, any errors or shortcomings in the reasoning in this book reflect
the times when I was not paying full attention in lectures.
Finally I have to thank by friend Terry O’Donohue who read the
manuscript for me several times. His painstaking editing of this
manuscript saved me from much grief.
Christopher Enright
1 November 2009
Armidale
New South Wales
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