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> I don't know what it is, my hunger for a system? Karl Popper called it "monocausotaxophilia". Humans want everything to have a single cause.

• sram1337 2y ago
  "Aha, 'monocausotaxophilia', finally a name for the thing causing all my problems!"
  • teekert 2y ago
    That’s pretty funny. It goes into my drawer with jokes like: I’m a biologist, and biologists never generalize!
    • ahartmetz 2y ago
      Don't anthropomorphize things, they hate that!
• impish9208 2y ago
  Wikitionary says it was Ernst Pöppel…
  • mapontosevenths 2y ago
    You're correct. Apparently it's a common misattribution, and it's been wrong in my quotes.txt file for ages. Thanks for catching it.