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Probable Quotes by Aristotle
- Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
- Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'
- It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally…
- That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
- It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
- The probable is what usually happens.
- With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
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