The Resource and the Role of Statistics
This chapter confirms whether the truth of determinism could, would, or should lead people to exercise the resource available to them and react normally in the way people characteristically react to the outliers. It explains P. F. Strawson's initial admission that it does not seem to be self-contradictory to suppose people would always use their resource. It also reflects on Strawson's thought, implying that to be engaged in anything like interpersonal relationships is to expect some sort of regard or goodwill from others. The chapter also analyzes how Strawson can and should allow expectations to change in their content and corresponding reactions to change in their tone. It speculates the thought of a human society in which there were no expectations of goodwill and no distinctive sort of reaction to failures of expectations.