"have ever been"

[sagehen]

>Arnold warns:
>    >>>>>
>
>we all run the risk here of extrapolating from possibly irrelevant
>aspects of very small numbers of examples.
>
> <<<<<
>
>"Everyone generalizes from one example. At least I do." (_Issola_, Steven
>Brust, chapter 14)
>
>-- Mark A. Mandel
~~~~~~~~~~~
The capacity to generalize is a mark of a fairly advanced  degree of
educability in the brain.( Chickens are said to lack it, though I wonder
about that! )
AM


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