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Full Idea
The generalising tendency is the great law of mind.
Gist of Idea
Generalisation is the great law of mind
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], VII)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.241
A Reaction
How else could a small and compact mind get a grip on a vast and diverse reality? This must even apply to inarticulate higher animals.