Science and natural language in the eighteenth century: Buffon and Linnaeus

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See, for example, Larson 1967, Sloan 1976and Le Guyader 1992.2. Scott Atran has already used this concept of "common sense" to characterize Buffon's scientific method.Claiming for example that common sense was to Buffon a "method of understanding" (Atran 1992: 231), he writes: "Buffon was to become the most persistent and influential opponent of the idea of system.Like Linnaeus, how-

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