1977Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative BiologyRequires access

The Common Sense of Immunology

N. K. Jerne

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Common sense was defined by Einstein as the set of prejudices that we have acquired by the age of eighteen. Good common sense tells us that this is an extreme definition, and that common sense is likely to contain both correct and wrong propositions.

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Common sense was defined by Einstein as the set of prejudices that we have acquired by the age of eighteen. Good common sense tells us that this is an extreme definition, and that common sense is likely to contain both correct and wrong propositions.

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Common sense was defined by Einstein as the set of prejudices that we have acquired by the age of eighteen. Good common sense tells us that this is an extreme definition, and that common sense is likely to contain both correct and wrong propositions.

Key concepts: Common sense, Sense (electronics), Set (abstract data type), Epistemology, Immunology, Psychology, Medicine, Philosophy

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