Source: How to Solve It (1945), p. 113
“Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.”
Maxim 1222, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
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