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Dialectic
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Once you accept mathematics as reality, you immediately see that everything has a sufficient reason, an explanation and answer, and you are part of the cosmic machinery of providing all of these answers. You yourself are an essential node of the calculation.
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― What Is Mathematics?: The Greatest Detective Story Never Told
― What Is Mathematics?: The Greatest Detective Story Never Told
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Nothing is more tedious than to talk with persons who treat your most obvious remarks as startling paradoxes and Edward suffered likewise from that passion for argument which is the bad talkers’ substitution for conversation. People who cannot talk are always proud of their dialectic. They want to modify your tritest observations and even if you suggest the day is fine, insist on arguing it out.
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― Mrs Craddock
― Mrs Craddock
