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Without generalization foreknowledge is impossible. The circumstances under which one has worked will never reproduce themselves all at once. The observed action then will never recur; the only thing that can be affirmed is that under analogous circumstances an analogous action will be produced. In order to foresee, then, it is necessary to invoke at least analogy, that is to say, already then to generalize.*
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Singer, M.G. (1985). Universalizability and the Generalization Principle. In: Potter, N.T., Timmons, M. (eds) Morality and Universality. Theory and Decision Library, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5285-0_2
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