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Confusion Of Sign And Object Is Original Sin Coeval With The Word.

Creatures Inveterately Wrong In Their Inductions Have A Pathetic But Praise-worthy Tendency To Die Before Reproducing Their Kind.

Irrefragability, Thy Name Is Mathematics.

Scientific Method Is The Way To Truth, But It Affords, Even In Principle, No Unique Definition Of Truth. Any So-called Pragmatic Definition Of Truth Is Doomed To Failure Equally.

Just As The Introduction Of The Irrational Numbers ... Is A Convenient Myth [which] Simplifies The Laws Of Arithmetic ... So Physical Objects Are Postulated Entities Which Round Out And Simplify Our Account Of The Flux Of Existence... The Conceptional Scheme Of Physical Objects Is [likewise] A Convenient Myth, Simpler Than The Literal Truth And Yet Containing That Literal Truth As A Scattered Part.