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Quotes from Erkenntnis und Irrtum: Skizzen zur Psychologie der Forschung — Ernst Mach

1838–1916 Austria

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The mental operation by which one achieves new concepts and which one denotes generally by the inadequate name of induction is not a simple but rather a very complicated process. Above all, it is not a logical process although such processes can be inserted as intermediary and auxiliary links. The principle effort that leads to the discovery of new knowledge is due to abstraction and imagination.

Erkenntnis und Irrtum: Skizzen zur Psychologie der Forschung (1905)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ernst Mach (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.