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Nor does the doctor always heal, for three reasons: the fallacy of experience, the evil of the disease and the disobedience of the patient, so the desired end does not always follow. Likewise the dialectician is prevented by the weakness of the probable he adduces, by the power of his opponent and by the difficulty of the problem in dispute.”
The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal
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