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Quotation from On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle
“Lack of experience diminishes our power of taking a comprehensive view of the admitted facts”
On Generation and Corruption, Book I, ch. 2, trans. H. H. Joachim (1922)
Aristotle's contrast between those who stay close to the phenomena and those whose abstract discussions make them unobservant, introducing his praise of Democritus's method.
Citation: "Lack of experience diminishes our power of taking a comprehensive view of the admitted facts" — Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption, Book I, ch. 2, trans. H. H. Joachim (1922). (id aristotle-on-generation-and-corruption-q1)
