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Reductio Ad Absurdum
a method of proving the falsity of a premise by showing that its logical consequence is absurd or contradictory
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Quotes About Goats
What Famous People Have Said About Goats:
a. Milton: nothing
b. Robespierre: nothing
c. Dante: nothing
d. William Pitt the Elder: “I must go and put a goat on” (poss. Misheard – Ed.)
e. Henry Ford: nothing
f. Clodagh Rodgers: nothing
g. Keith Miller (Great Australian all-rounder of the 1950s): nothing
Once again it’s been a bad year for goats
- Monty Python’s...
the lisbon girls
kideas:
So much has been said about the girls over the years. But we have never found an answer. It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls… but only that we had loved them… and that they hadn’t heard us calling… still do not hear us calling them from out of those rooms… where they went to be alone for all time… and where we will never find the pieces to put them...
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What have I learned about the occurrence of ethnic...
“It happens except for when it doesn’t happen.”
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