ABSTRACT
Holton, Gerald Roller, Duane H.D. If we liken the facts to be explained to fish in a pond, then the law or set of laws is the net with which we make the catch. It may turn out that our particular net is not fine enough to haul in all fish, large and small, but it may still be quite satisfactory for supplying our ordinary needs. We may go even further and maintain that to be useful at all, our conceptual schemes, like our nets, must contain holes; if it were otherwise (if, so to speak, we were to go fishing with large buckets instead of nets), we should not be able to distinguish between the significant and the trivial, the fish and the water.
