“If men attempt the discussion of questions which lie entirely beyond the reach of human capacity, such as those concerning the origin of worlds, … they may long beat the air in their fruitless contests, and never arrive at any determinate conclusion. But if the question regard any subject of common life and experience, nothing, one would think, could preserve the dispute so long undecided but some ambiguous expressions, which keep the antagonists still at a distance, and hinder them from grappling with each other.”
– David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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