Full Idea
Discovery often amounts, as when I place a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, not to arrival at a proposition for declaration or defense, but to finding a fit.
Gist of Idea
Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle
Source
Nelson Goodman (Ways of Worldmaking [1978], 1.7)
Book Reference
Goodman,Nelson: 'Ways of Worldmaking' [Hackett 1984], p.21
A Reaction
I find Goodman's views here pretty alien, but I like this bit. Coherence really rocks.