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 (Maslow, Abraham Harold (1966), //The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance//)
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+This //law of the instrument// describes a tendency to overly rely on a [[tool]] one is already familiar with. The definition or the idea of the //law of the instrument// can not really be pinpointed to a specific person. Throughout human his/herstory several people had similar thoughts — as usual… — and such over-reliance to a familiar tool was observed in multiple fields, such as medicin, economics, politics, computer programming, and — well… — hammers.
+The process of designing is often a problem-solving process "we [the designers] tend to formulate our problems in such a way as to make it seem that the solution to those problems demand precisely what we already happen to have at hand." (Abraham Kaplan)
+See also the [[Birmingham Skrewdriver]].