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earth, that
would not necessitate this extreme freezing action, much less does it do so when the two hot
elements are
joined with them.‟ He supposes that this is a proof!
Most of the philosophers‟ proofs in natural science and theology are constructed in this fashion.
They
conceive of things according to the measure of their observations and reasoning. What they are
unfamiliar
with they suppose impossible. If it were not that veridical vision in sleep is familiar, when
someone claimed
to gain knowledge of the unseen while his senses were at rest, men with such intellects would deny
it. If you
said to one, `Is it possible for there to be in the world a thing, the size of a grain, which if
placed in a town,
will consume that town in its entirety and then consume itself, so that nothing is left of the town
and what it
contained nor of the thing itself‟?; he would say, `This is absurd; it is an old wives‟ tale‟. Yet
this is the case
would not necessitate this extreme freezing action, much less does it do so when the two hot
elements are
joined with them.‟ He supposes that this is a proof!
Most of the philosophers‟ proofs in natural science and theology are constructed in this fashion.
They
conceive of things according to the measure of their observations and reasoning. What they are
unfamiliar
with they suppose impossible. If it were not that veridical vision in sleep is familiar, when
someone claimed
to gain knowledge of the unseen while his senses were at rest, men with such intellects would deny
it. If you
said to one, `Is it possible for there to be in the world a thing, the size of a grain, which if
placed in a town,
will consume that town in its entirety and then consume itself, so that nothing is left of the town
and what it
contained nor of the thing itself‟?; he would say, `This is absurd; it is an old wives‟ tale‟. Yet
this is the case