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“Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the contradictory idea is impossible; a proof of fact is where all the reasons lead to belief, without there being any pretext for doubt; a probability is where the reasons for belief are stronger than those for doubting.”
—Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686–1743)
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