The constellation
J2214 Absurd generalization from a particular incident
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- Peas will burn. Fool warns those who ride through a field of peas. "You will burn your horses' feet. I burned my mouth with hot peas the other day." · J2214.1 entry
- Conclusion: youth and age are alike. Reason: he tried in vain as a youth to lift a certain stone; he has also tried in vain as an old man · J2214.2 entry
- Waiting at the well for the thief. A thief has stolen a salted cheese. Since one always goes to the well after eating salted cheese, the thief will also come · J2214.3 entry
- Human milk as best diet (for baby). Fool therefore will take nothing but milk from his wife and starves the baby · J2214.4 entry
- Man is servant of the animals (for he supplies feed for them). Fish so reason · J2214.5 entry
- Men must have been calves once (for they are fond of milk). Fish so reason. (Cf. B233.1.) · J2214.6 entry
- Oil is cheap (or spilling oil is good luck). Man hearing this breaks oil vessels · J2214.7 entry
- Fool carries his wife to the remedy instead of the opposite · J2214.8 entry
- Dipping into cold water to cure fever, since hot iron is so cooled · J2214.9 entry
- Starving colt fierce from hunger, but fool refuses to feed it lest it become fiercer · J2214.10 entry
- England must be full of widows. So concludes widow's daughter, who makes her living by spinning, when she sees so much warm goods from England · J2214.11 entry
- False judgment of distance in clear atmosphere of mountain area · J2214.12 entry