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  • A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

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    Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.34, Cambridge University Press
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A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'. - Ian Hacking
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