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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Quotation of the Day from Cafe Hayek

Quotation of the Day…

by Don Boudreaux on October 11, 2011
in Scientism
… is from page 248 of Will Durant’s 1957 book The Reformation; here, Durant summarizes a theme from William of Ockham:
How much nonsense is talked or written by mistaking ideas for things, abstractions for realities!
Source:  Cafe Hayek
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