"However closely we may associate thought with the physical machinery of the brain, the connection is dropped as irrelevant as soon as we consider the fundamental property of thoughtâthat it may be correct or incorrect. ...that involves recognising a domain of the other type of lawâlaws which ought to be kept, but may be broken."
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Arthur Eddington, Science and the Unseen World (1929)
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