Tentative philosophical methods naturally lead to gradual reform rather than violent revolution.

Evidence

Locke, as we saw, is tentative in his beliefs, not at all authoritarian, and willing to leave every question to be decided by free discussion. The result, both in his case and in that of his followers, was a belief in reform, but of a gradual sort. Since their systems of thought were piecemeal, and the result of separate investigations of many different questions, their political views tended naturally to have the same character. They fought shy of large programmes all cut out of one block, and preferred to consider each question on its merits. In politics, as in philosophy, they were tentative and experimental. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2348

Categorization

• XREF: XREF: Links epistemology to political methodology—tentative empiricism vs totalizing deduction. — connects to: Communist realism means gradual deliberate resource-building, not awaiting revolution. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1816
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2348