“Most men's minds are so constituted that they have to think by means of examples ; if you do not supply these, they will supply them for themselves, and if you leave it wholly to them, they will do it badly. On the other hand, if you start from familiar things, they are very quick to make the necessary generalizations. In a sense they are making such generalizations constantly; whenever they recognize the thing before them as a chair or a lamp-post, they are leaping from the particular to the general by a process of implicit classification.”
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Brand Blanshard
Brand Blanshard was a prominent American philosopher known for his contributions to ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics. His philosophical thought was deeply influenced by British empiricism and German idealism, and he had a significant impact on the philosophy community in the 20th century. more
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