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«A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l»
Author: John Allen Paulos
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«Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.»
Author: Roger Bacon
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«Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
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«Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
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Self-knowledge,
Self-love
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admiration, conclusive, evidence
«CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance --against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance. Cerberus is known to have had three heads, and some of the poets have credited him with as many as a hundred. Professor Graybill, whose clerky erudition and profound knowledge of Greek give his opinion great weight, has averaged all the estimates, and makes the number twenty-seven --a judgment that would be entirely conclusive is Professor Graybill had known (a) something about dogs, and (b) something about arithmetic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred»
Author: James Madison
(President)
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Experience
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conclusive, responses, unequivocal
«I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.»
«Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows»
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