The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must be something about such creatures (or about such situations, or about both) in virtue of which it does so.

Jerry Fodor

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The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.

data bears may