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Nelson Goodman:Truth cannot be defined or tested


Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ‘the world’; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.
by Nelson Goodman


Nelson Goodman:Truth cannot be defined or tested


Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ‘the world’; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.
by Nelson Goodman


Eric Hoffer:That which corrodes the souls of the


That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
by Eric Hoffer


Malcolm Muggeridge:There’s nothing is this world


There’s nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
by Malcolm Muggeridge


Reginald Withers Payne:The difficulty about a


The difficulty about a gentlemen’s agreement is that it depends on the continued existence of the gentlemen
by Reginald Withers Payne


E.B. White:There is nothing more likely to start


There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
by E.B. White


I Ching:Of all that is good, sublimity is


Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
by I Ching


Herbert Butterfield:The very fact of its finding


The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.
by Herbert Butterfield


J.K. Galbraith:Meetings are a great trap. Soon


Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded.... However, they are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
by J.K. Galbraith


Frank Medlicott:Some people mistake weakness for


Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name.
by Frank Medlicott


Donald Davidson:The methodological advice to


The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.
by Donald Davidson


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