"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."
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Ernst Mach Erkenntnis und Irrtum: Skizzen zur Psychologie der Forschung (1905) 3rd edition, p. 318ff, translated as Knowledge and Error: Sketches Toward a Psychology of (Scientific) Research; as quoted by , Philosophy of Science: The Link Between Science and Philosophy (1957)
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