On the Fly
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And all things, whose opposites do not exist for ever,
may either be or not be,
and their way is emergence and death.
Aristotle (Physica, Book 4, Ch.12, 222a)
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There cannot be what has been called "void", or "nothingness" or "empty",
or any of the other myriad metaphors that many philosophers
have wont to entertain themselves with,
and that has passed, I feel erroneously, for philosophy.
M. T. Horn
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If we first claim that the axioms of a formal system are about nothing
then take credit for the explanatory value when it works,
and escape the consequences when it doesn't,
then what we do is foolproof but not honest.
H. M. Hubey (The Diagonal Infinity, Preface)
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The formal system is a hypothesis; the theorems are predictions.
Whether they are true depends on the real world.
H. M. Hubey (The Diagonal Infinity, Preface)
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Arguments may be valid without being true.
Ian J.
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... logic is not a priori to anything; it's learned via living...
H. M. Hubey (The Diagonal Infinity, Ch.IV)
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The important thing is to realize that one cannot suppose
that one may arrive at the truth merely by a study of words...
H. M. Hubey (The Diagonal Infinity, Ch.IV)
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Never wrestle with a pig; you'll get dirty, and the pig will like it.
Mark Rue
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Even the stupid hate being made to look foolish!
B. W. Aldiss
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When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Phil Gibbs
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If you set your sights on only grabbing a leaf off a high tree limb,
instead of grabbing for a star, because you believe that the former
is more attainable, then you will only get the leaf, which will wither and die,
while the star still shines from afar.
Jon Will
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If a wolf has eaten your enemy, it does not mean
that the wolf has become your friend.
school folklore
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To find a fit, simply means not to notice any discrepancies.
Ernst von Glasersfeld
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Things are bound to get a whole lot worse before they can get any better.
R. A. Heinlein (Logic of Empire)
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If we could only perceive it, we would hear how every solid body sings!
E. I. Bichenkov
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It may be better to know, rather than be ignorant.
E.I.Bichenkov
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A god that can be comprehended is no god.
E. I. Bichenkov
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Even if Nature had ever been created by a god,
the creation of a human being
has made any further god's intervention utterly impossible.
E. I. Bichenkov
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The ideas have the property of coming and disappearing.
O. Nechayev
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The humanity consists of people.
L. V. Avdeev
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Do not believe what has been written. Believe yourself.
P. A. Kim
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Don't spit on the people, or eventually the people will spit on you,
and you'll get drowned.
O. Nechayev
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Why every hard blow makes one ponder on the sense of life?
Yu. N. Maltsev
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Thou who said "A", say "B"!
A. Gabov
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Esteem yourself!
A. Gabov
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I protest against the feebleness of the reason!
V. Koren
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Maybe the abnormality is the norm of life.
V. Koren
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Everybody is right their way.
And everybody is not right
because they are right their way.
V. Koren
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One bad working theory is better than no theory at all.
V. Koren
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The culture of thought is nothing but possessing the methods that are mutually consistent.
V. Koren
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Withdraiwing from anything that burns, we withdraw from any light as well!
V. Koren
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If only the brain were like hair, so that one could comb it!
V. Koren
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