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by BobaFloutist 952 days ago
I'm pretty sure they were referring to the established aphorism "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
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I think it's one and the same, no? Your aphorism is literally cited in the first paragraph of the "Law of the instrument" linked above.
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