Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the name of a thing. - Henry Ellis

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Henry Ellis: "Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the name of a thing."

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Already	Analogical	Categories	Children
Dispense	Even	Fiction	Fictions
Give	Investigator	Labels	Least
Make	Most	Must	Name
Pleasure	Positivist	Receive	Same
Science	Scientific	Thing	Thoroughgoing

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