What Thomas Robert Malthus thinks about mental models

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English economist and cleric (1766 to 1834); author of An Essay on the Principle of Population.

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1. c. 1798

   Our readingImprovement whose limit is unknown is wrongly taken for unlimited improvement

   Their wordsThe error does not seem to lie in supposing a small degree of improvement possible, but in not discriminating between a small improvement, the limit of which is undefined, and an improvement really unlimited.

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