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1908 Dec 1
Logic
I.i. 27

Several genera of scientific groups exist not because there
seems to be much reason for them in the nature of things, but
because of the habits of the men. They actually exist; that is to say, as
a matter of fact certain classes of scientists are little acquainted with
work that is going on in fields which seem to be much related to their
own. For example, the proportion of accomplished chemists who could
enumerate off-hand the 32 classes of crystals, to say nothing of being able to discriminate between [??], is probably small; although
it is not easy to see why crystallography ought not to be a branch of
chemistry. Another difficulty is that of two groups, – call them the
A-ists and the B-ists, – almost every A-ist is well prepared to pass judgment on almost every
research by a B-ist, while very few B-ists know anything about impor-
tant parts of the activity of the A-ist. The reason may, for example, be that
it is so notorious that the branch cultivated by the A-ists absolutely requires

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