Quotulatiousness

October 13, 2020

QotD: Generalizations

Filed under: Education, Quotations — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 01:00

Generalizations, indeed, all have their limits — even this one. Apply them often enough, and you will come inevitably upon some disconcerting exception … But because philosophy is long and life is short we must assume, even when we can’t entirely believe, that [things] fall into groups and classes, else we could never hope to study them at all.

H.L. Mencken, Men versus the Man: A Correspondence between Robert Rives La Monte, Socialist, and H.L. Mencken, Individualist, 1910.

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