Agent Smith
Location: Last seen in Texas (c.35,000 BC)
Bio
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)
1. If x exists, there's a sufficient explanation why x exists.
2. If e happens, there's a sufficient explanation why e happens.
3. If p is true, there's a sufficient explanation why p is true.
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)
1. If x exists, there's a sufficient explanation why x exists.
2. If e happens, there's a sufficient explanation why e happens.
3. If p is true, there's a sufficient explanation why p is true.
Gorgias:
1. Nothing exists.
2. Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it.
3. Even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.
4. Even if it can be communicated, it cannot be understood.
Gy?dai:Leaves fall
Leaves pile up;
Rain ... beats on rain.
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Favourite Philosopher
Cratylus, the finger wriggler
Favourite Quotations
Cratylus::zip: Wriggle finger.
Numerius Negedius:Shhh...no one cares!
Audi, Vide, Tace (hear, see, be silent).
Socrates:I neither know nor think I know.
Peter Parker:Hey Strange, you know what's cooler than magic? Math!
Maxwell Dillon:Don't worry, I'm all tapped out. Back to being a nobody.
Christopher Hitchens:I'll give you all the miracles but you'll still be left exactly where you are now - holding an empty sack.
Joe Wong:Hypocrisy is the best we can hope for. In hypocrisy people acknowledge something is nice and pretend to be that.
Ubi amor, ibi dolor (Where love, there pain)
Lao Tzu:
1. Wu wei.
2. Those who speak do not know. Those who know do not speak.
Michel de Montaigne:Que sais-je (What do I know)?
William Kingdon Clifford (Clifford's Principle):It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
Richard Dawkins:The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Galileo Galilei:Eppur si muove.
Philip K. Dick:Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Blaise Pascal:The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.
Sarah Connor:When are you from?
Bertrand Russell:If you are certain, you are most certainly wrong.
Tertullian:Certum est, quia impossibile (It is certain, because it is impossible).
Credo quia absurdum (I believe because it is absurd)
Carl Sagan (The Sagan standard):Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Ibn Sina:Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.
Albert Camus:There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide.
Friedrich Nietzsche:A man's maturity is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.
David Hilbert:Wir müssen wissen - Wir werden wissen (We must know - we will know).
Numerius Negedius (comment on Leonhard Euler's Tentamen novae theorae musicae):Too mathematical for musicians and too musical for mathematicians.
H. L. Mencken:For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
J. P. Morgan:A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
Zhuangzi:Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.
Bhart?hari:Sarvam mithy? brav?mi (Everything I'm saying is false).
Sir Robert Hutchison:From inability to let well alone, from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old, from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense, from treating patients as cases and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, good Lord deliver us.
Kurt Patrick Wise:As I shared with my professors years ago when I was in college, if all the evidence in the universe turns against creationism, I would be the first to admit it, but I would still be a creationist because that is what the Word of God seems to indicate.
Parmenides:Ex nihilo nihil fit.
Heraclitus:Panta rhei.
Thomas Jefferson:Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.
KDT:I'm fed up with your questions.
Robert J. Hanlon (Hanlon's Razor):Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
James Patterson:Assume nothing, question everything.
Linji Yixuan:If you meet the Buddha, kill him.
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire):Le meglio è l'inimico del bene (The perfect is the enemy of the good).
KCT:It's better not to understand.
Numerius Negedius:Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
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