Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 250 | "A teaching which cannot, even in theory, be disconfirmed is not View more quotes about true">true, but empty. |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 247 | "What arguments, or what sorts of evidence, if it could be produced," I asked, "might you take as indicating the falsity of the Teaching?" "Nothing is to be permitted to indicate the falsity of the Teaching," said the fellow who had been foremost among them. |
| 16 | 248 | "That is in the Teaching," explained another one of them. |
| 16 | 249 | "A teaching which cannot be disconfirmed cannot be confirmed, either," I said. |
| 16 | 250 | "A teaching which cannot, even in theory, be disconfirmed is not true, but empty. |
| 16 | 251 | If the world cannot speak to it, it does not speak of the world. |
| 16 | 252 | It speaks of nothing. |
| 16 | 253 | It is babble, twaddle as vacant as it is vain and inane". |
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"What arguments, or what sorts of evidence, if it could be produced," I asked, "might you take as indicating the falsity of the Teaching?" "Nothing is to be permitted to indicate the falsity of the Teaching," said the fellow who had been foremost among them.
"That is in the Teaching," explained another one of them.
"A teaching which cannot be disconfirmed cannot be confirmed, either," I said.
"A teaching which cannot, even in theory, be disconfirmed is not true, but empty.
If the world cannot speak to it, it does not speak of the world.
It speaks of nothing.
It is babble, twaddle as vacant as it is vain and inane".
- (Savages of Gor)