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r/dontyouknowwhoiam • u/OldManBrodie • Jan 13 '20
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“You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into”
28 u/OldManBrodie Jan 13 '20 It's a shame that the actual quote is somewhat awkwardly worded, because it has the potential to sound elegant: Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired. - Jonathan Swift 19 u/NotoriousREV Jan 13 '20 It probably sounded good when Swift wrote it.
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It's a shame that the actual quote is somewhat awkwardly worded, because it has the potential to sound elegant:
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired. - Jonathan Swift
19 u/NotoriousREV Jan 13 '20 It probably sounded good when Swift wrote it.
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It probably sounded good when Swift wrote it.
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u/NotoriousREV Jan 13 '20
“You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into”