• BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wasn’t that rather a reference to the normal / gaussian distribution, that describes many phenomena so well?

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      1 year ago

      I always thought the phrase was Aristotlean but it seems the internet asserts recent or unknown origins.