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picture20 Dec 2006 @ 23:48, by Bruce Kodish

"In order that we may have some guarantee of arriving at the same opinion about an idea, the minimal requirement is that we should have had different opinions about it in the first place. If two men want to agree they really have to contradict one another first. Truth is the daughter of discussion, not of sympathy."

—— Gaston Bachelard, The Philosophy of No (1940), p. 114.
[Translation 1968 by G. C. Waterston]

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