"...while there is such a thing as correctness……" — Hilary Putnam
"...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics...."
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Hilary Putnam
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
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