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Korean Grammar in Use: Advanced

by Jean-myung Ahn

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Marcus’s Quotes

“All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.”
― Paul Karl Feyerabend, Farewell to Reason

tags: abstraction, goodness, religion

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“A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.”
― Benjamin Franklin, A Benjamin Franklin Reader: The Essential Writings of a Colonial Sage

tags: fallibilism, tolerance

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“Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.”
― Paul Karl Feyerabend, Problems of Empiricism: Volume 2: Philosophical Papers

tags: culture, knowledge, philosophy, truth

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“An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.”
― William James, Pragmatism and Other Writings

tags: pragmatism, psychology, truth, w-v-o-quine, web-of-belief

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“Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress”
― Paul Karl Feyerabend, Against Method

tags: language, progress, science

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