R. W. K. Paterson Quote

We cannot find out what a home is by looking at actual instances of homes, since we cannot even begin to pick these out as putatively instances of 'homes' unless we have somewhere in our minds an idea of what a 'home' is truly supposed to be. We can only recognize the false if we can compare it mentally with the true. Thus the average home cannot possibly be taken as a standard measure of what a home should be.

p. 59. - The New Patricians (1998)