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“In the future I see open fields for … important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already well laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.” Thus Charles Darwin wrote in On the Origin of Species;1 in the sequel he announced: “Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.”2 And Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin’s famous advocate, predicted that Darwin’s own work, “if you take it as the embodiment of a hypothesis ... is destined to be the guide of biological and psychological speculation for the next three or four generations.”3 Since Darwin, much light has indeed been thrown on the origin of man, his history and his place in nature, and Huxley’s prediction has proved to be true.
There could be no fairer destiny for any … theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on, as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions …, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves …
Bertrand Russell
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Wuketits, F.M. (1984). Evolutionary Epistemology — A Challenge to Science and Philosophy. In: Wuketits, F.M. (eds) Concepts and Approaches in Evolutionary Epistemology. Theory and Decision Library, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7127-1_1
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