Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

  • -- Eric Temple Bell 埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔

欧几里得告诉我,没有假设就没有证据。因此,在任何论证中,都要检验假设。

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My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

我的工作基于这样一个假设:从长远来看,我们道德思维的清晰和一致性可能会让我们对道德问题持有更好的观点。

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

在几十年的重建中,甚至数学自然科学的原型理论的完善,都彻底改变了习惯!

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

我不赞同罪犯的动机与其他人截然不同的假设。