must be rejected on another. This is really unobjectionable, as far as it goes. Where Robinson gets into difficulties is that he never explicates how he goes about building his web of imaginative construction. This leads not only to a lack of clarity but also to positions that at times border on the fantastic.46 Perhaps most problematic, having failed to attend carefully to the matter of method, Robinson ends up presenting the relevant data and argumentation in a somewhat haphazard fashion. Why this