Un único ejemplo puede revelar la existencia de una ley gramatical, al menos eso sucede en Física según el filósofo Colin McGinn. ¿Nos previene sobre la Lingüística de Corpus?
72. “Laws are confirmed by their instances”: but after a certain point positive instances do not add further confirmation of the law. Is the law of gravity made more probable every day? No. Instances reveal laws to us; they don’t aggregate on a scale of confirmation [...] A principle can be manifest in a single instance, if the instance is good enough.
