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{{a|g| | {{a|g|{{image|Rene Descartes|jpg|I ''think'' this is [[René Descartes]]. But ...}} | ||
{{subtable|The [[JC]] likes to rush in, as you know, where fools fear to tread. So let us try to achieve what Descartes could not. If you cannot ''avoid'' it, at least put a ''name'' on it. So let us — [[for the avoidance of doubt]] — thoroughly define what we ''mean'' by “[[doubt]]”: | {{subtable|The [[JC]] likes to rush in, as you know, where fools fear to tread. So let us try to achieve what Descartes could not. If you cannot ''avoid'' it, at least put a ''name'' on it. So let us — [[for the avoidance of doubt]] — thoroughly define what we ''mean'' by “[[doubt]]”: | ||
===The meaning of doubt=== | ===The meaning of doubt=== | ||
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}}}}{{quote|''And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its databanks had been connected up it had started from “[[I think, therefore I am]]” and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off.'' | }}}}{{quote|''And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its databanks had been connected up it had started from “[[I think, therefore I am]]” and got as far as deducing the existence of [[rice pudding and income tax]] before anyone managed to turn it off.'' | ||
:—Douglas Adams, {{hhgg}}}} | :—Douglas Adams, {{hhgg}}}} | ||
===Should a lawyer ever say these words?=== | ===Should a lawyer ever say these words?=== | ||