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Quotation from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
“The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.”
The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg text)
Russell illustrates the danger of expectations formed by repetition, as he introduces the problem of induction.
Citation: "The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken." — Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg text). (id russell-problems-of-philosophy-q4)
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