“ There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. ”
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“ We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, definite, and, in a way, absolutistic onevalued statements. But when we fight absolutism, we quite often establish, instead, some other dogma equally silly and harmful. For instance, an active atheist is psychologically as unsound as a rabid theist. ”
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“ Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. ”
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“ When we say our rulers, we mean those who are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. We must consider ourselves a symbolic, semantic class of life, and cannot cease from being so those who control the symbols rule us. Bankers, priests, lawyers, politicians, and work together… ”
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“ Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies. ”
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“ Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies. ”
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“ It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification — the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life. ”
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“ If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with themselves, the old dictum that everything is identical with itself becomes in a principle invariably false to facts. ”
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“ Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ”
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“ There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. ”
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“ It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification — the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life. ”
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“ Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies. ”
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“ There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. ”
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“ It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification — the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life. ”
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“ It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification — the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life. ”
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“ Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies. ”
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“ If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. ”
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“ If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. ”
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“ If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. ”
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“ In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize. ”
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“ Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories. ”
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“ It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification — the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life. ”
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“ It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification — the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life. ”
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“ Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ”
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“ It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification — the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life. ”
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