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" Hence There's strong presumptive evidence None do — or can — such proof propound Because the dogma is unsound. For, were there means of doing so, They would have proved it long ago. This is only one of the alternatives. Proof requires a person who... "
Astronomical Register: A Medium of Communication for Amateur Observers and ... - Page 125
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A Budget of Paradoxes

Augustus De Morgan - 1872 - 530 pages
...Because the dogma is unsound. For, were there means of doing so, They would have proved it long ago. This is only one of the alternatives. Proof requires...goose to be ? Did he not know he couldn't see ? Not he ! The absurdity of the verses is in the argument. The writer was not so ignorant or so dishonest as...
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A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume 1

Augustus De Morgan - Circle-squaring - 1872 - 552 pages
...Because the dogma is unsound. For, were there means of doing so, They would have proved it long ago. This is only one of the alternatives. Proof requires...receive. I feel inspired to add the following : — A hlind man said, As to the Sun, I'll take my Bible oath there's none ; For if there had been one to...
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Memorabilia Mathematica; Or, The Philomath's Quotation-book

Robert Édouard Moritz - Mathematics - 1914 - 436 pages
...relics: so they do in one sense. — DE MORGAN, A. Budget of Paradoxes (London, 1872), p. 473. 2102. Proof requires a person who can give and a person who can receive. . . . A blind man said, As to the Sun, I'll take my Bible oath there's none; For if there had been...
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Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills

Paul J. Nahin - Mathematics - 2006 - 422 pages
...problem on its way into history, Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871), wrote in his book Budget of Paradoxes, "Proof requires a person who can give and a person who can receive" (my emphasis). There is no mention here of an automatic machine performing hundreds of millions of...
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