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"Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum."

January 1, 1970

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There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher. — Book II, chapter LVIII, section 119 — Cf. René Descartes' "On ne sauroit rien imaginer de si étranger et si peu croyable, qu'il n'ait été dit par quelqu'un des philosophes [One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another]" (Le Discours de la Méthode, Pt. 2)

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There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher. — Book II, chapter LVIII, section 119 — Cf. René Descartes' "On ne sauroit rien imaginer de si étranger et si peu croyable, qu'il n'ait été dit par quelqu'un des philosophes [One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another]" (Le Discours de la Méthode, Pt. 2)