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Wait, what are they about then?
They are about actual anticipation only insofar as possible future discoveries of materials from the past are concerned. Otherwise, they're about making coherent sense of what has been found so far.
Sub-sampling seems to be a useful concept to introduce here. Then you can 'discover' things over and over again.