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All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second…
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A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes…
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Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
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It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once…
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Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.
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Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that…
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By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us…
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Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
— Francis Bacon
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is…
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them…
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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,…
— Mark Twain
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Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
— Joey Skaggs
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Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible…
— Wassily Leontief
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We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
— Wassily Leontief
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