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results of each catch. After extensive sampling, the scientist concluded that there were no fish smaller than two inches in the sea. The moral of Sir Eddington's analogy is twofold. First, scientific instruments are shaped by people’s intuitive theories of the phenomena to be investigated. Second, once devel

|29 Epley N, Waytz A, Akalis S, Cacioppo JT. When we need a human: Motivational determinants of anthropomorphism. Social Cognition 2008;26:143-55. Eddington AS. The philosophy of physical science : Tarner lectures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1939. Rilling J, Gutman D, Zeh T, Pagnoni G, Berns

1_02124776 EFTA02711260 A A A a, Ibid., ficeThings of AugustA p. 490. ficeThe speech of . . . in what it says.a A A A 9. Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (London: Routledge and Paul, 1963), trans. Emma Crawford, p. 542. ficeA closed door . . . the way through" A A to T. E. Hulme, Further Speculations

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