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Quotation from Generation of Animals by Aristotle
“For all theories not based on the special principles involved are empty”
Generation of Animals, Book II, Ch. 8 (748a), trans. Arthur Platt (1910)
Aristotle's criticism of an over-general explanation of the sterility of mules.
Citation: "For all theories not based on the special principles involved are empty" — Aristotle, Generation of Animals, Book II, Ch. 8 (748a), trans. Arthur Platt (1910). (id aristotle-generation-of-animals-q9)
