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Anonymous Sat Sep 21 16:21:26 2019 No.13859404 [Reply] [Original]

>”Since nothing is proved, everything can be proved.”

What did he mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 18:44:09 2019 No.13860199 since you can know, you can also not know

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 18:53:23 2019 No.13860252 Looking at it completely out of context and w/o background it made me think about how much potential the field of philosophy still has is equivalent to how much it had at birth, and about how modern philosophy is a joke.

>>	mesi Sat Sep 21 19:01:45 2019 No.13860296 I am not familiar with this statement, but it might have something to do with the way that you can prove anything from a false assumption. for example, in math if you say 0=1, then you can prove anything

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 20:25:09 2019 No.13860695 >>13859404 Is this an actual quote or did you just make it up? Maybe he just means "you've got your work cut out for you," and not something like "Nothing ⊢ everything"