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...should like to very much." said the Hatter. "But, you know, the arrow will never get to the target...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/2/1935 | See Source »

...Hatter was ever ready for an argument and on hearing this opened his eyes very wide. Then, with a scholarly nonchalance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/2/1935 | See Source »

...know your early Greek philosophy," said the Hatter pompously. "Zeno proved that the Tortoise would easily win. For while Achilles was traversing the distance from his starting point to the starting point of the Tortoise, the Tortoise would advance to another point; and this procedure would go on ad infinitum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/2/1935 | See Source »

...supposed to make sense," said the Mad Hatter, "it's U-Boats that the Fuehrer wants to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/3/1935 | See Source »

...That again," continued the Hatter in a very superior tone, "is because your knowledge of logic isn't complete. You know that by induction you get a general conclusion from many particulars, and by deduction a single proposition comes from two conclusions: well, by another special from of logic we get a civilization loss of some 50,000,000 able-bodied citizens and we conclude the world is safe for democracy. That form of logic, my dear child, is reduction. And it's quite the vogue today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/3/1935 | See Source »

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