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• The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell
• Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of… — Barbara Ehrenreich
• Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds… — Roy Lichtenstein
• The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived… — Hans Reichenbach
• [This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on… — Frederick Soddy
• For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should… — Bertrand Russell
• We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — Unknown Author
• ...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the… — Jerry Fodor

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