Stigler's law of eponymy

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Stigler's Law of Eponymy is a principle in the philosophy of science, named after the statistician Stephen Stigler. It states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Instead, discoveries are often attributed to individuals who were not the first to make them, or who popularized the findings, rather than those who first conceived of them.

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