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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Does "there is nothing so extravagant or irrational which philosophers have not maintained for truth” mean...?
Does "there is nothing so extravagant or irrational which philosophers have not maintained for truth” mean " philosophers have maintained anything (that is extravagant or irrational) to explain/to support truth"?
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Research is riddled with strong characters; Walter Gratzer applauds a spirited attempt to get their measure.
Yale University Press: 2008. 352 pp. $40.00, £25
The proposition put in the mouth of Lemuel Gulliver by Jonathan Swift that “there is nothing so extravagant or irrational which philosophers have not maintained for truth”, still holds. The zealots, monomaniacs and obsessives at whose approach we scatter are in general just that, and nothing more.
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Research is riddled with strong characters; Walter Gratzer applauds a spirited attempt to get their measure.
BOOK REVIEWED-Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology
Edited by Oren Solomon Harman and Michael R. DietrichYale University Press: 2008. 352 pp. $40.00, £25
The proposition put in the mouth of Lemuel Gulliver by Jonathan Swift that “there is nothing so extravagant or irrational which philosophers have not maintained for truth”, still holds. The zealots, monomaniacs and obsessives at whose approach we scatter are in general just that, and nothing more.
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NL888 Does "there is nothing so extravagant or irrational which philosophers have not maintained for truth” mean " philosophers have maintained anything (that is extravagant or irrational) to explain/to support truth"? Yes.
- NL888 Does "there is nothing so extravagant or irrational which philosophers have not maintained for truth” mean " philosophers have maintained anything (that is extravagant or irrational) to explain/to support truth"?
- Yes.
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NL888Does "there is nothing so extravagant or irrational which philosophers have not maintained for truth” mean " philosophers have maintained anything (that is extravagant or irrational) to explain/to support truth"?Yes.
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Does "at whose approach we scatter" mean "we are distracted by their method"?
Does "at whose approach we scatter" mean "we are distracted by their method"?
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NL888Does "at whose approach we scatter" mean "we are distracted by their method"?No, it means they alarm us and we all run away from them, literally, mentally or figuratively.
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