If there is anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
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But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
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The chain is only as strong as its weakest link, for if that fails the chain fails and the object that it has been holding up falls to the ground.
— Thomas Reid Essays On The Intellectual Powers Of Man
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In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.
— Thomas Reid Essays On The Intellectual Powers Of Man
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The chain is only as strong as its weakest link, for if that fails the chain fails and the object that it has been holding up falls to the ground.
— Thomas Reid Essays On The Intellectual Powers Of Man
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