"I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please."

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In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

— Edgar Allan Poe