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«In my judgment, it would be quite wrong and dangerous from the
standpoint of scientific progress to depreciate the importance of [...]
antinomies, and to treat them as jokes or sophistries. It is a fact that
we are here in the presence of an absurdity, that we have been compelled
to assert a false sentence [...]. If we take our work seriously, we
cannot be reconciled with this fact. We must discover its cause, that is
to say, we must analyze premises upon which the antinomy is based; we
must then reject at least one of these premises, and we must investigate
the consequences which this has for the whole domain of our research.»
Alfred Tarski 1944: 348.
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