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		<title>Taleb, Nassim Nicholas -- Fooled by Randomness, Part 1, ch.  2 (2001)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality.</p>
<br><b>Nassim Nicholas Taleb</b> (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist<br><i>Fooled by Randomness</i>, Part 1, ch.  2 (2001) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/fooledbyrandomne00tale/page/26/mode/2up?q=%22precise+game+like%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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		<title>Franklin, Benjamin -- Poor Richard  (1737 ed.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As to the Weather, if I were to fall into the Method my Brother J****n sometimes uses, and tell you, Snow here or in New England, &#8212; Rain here or in South-Carolina, &#8212; Cold to the Northward, &#8212; Warm to the Southward, and the like, whatever Errors I might commit, I should be something more [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As to the Weather, if I were to fall into the Method my Brother J****n sometimes uses, and tell you, <i>Snow here or in New England, &#8212; Rain here or in South-Carolina, &#8212; Cold to the Northward, &#8212; Warm to the Southward,</i> and the like, whatever Errors I might commit, I should be something more secure of not being detected in them: But I consider, it will be of no Service to any body to know what Weather it is 1000 miles off, and therefore I always set down positively what Weather my Reader will have, be he where he will at the time. We modestly desire only the favourable Allowance of <i>a day or two before</i> and <i>a day or two after</i> the precise Day against which the Weather is set; and if it does not come to pass accordingly, let the Fault be laid upon the Printer, who, ’tis very like, may have transpos’d or misplac’d it, perhaps for the Conveniency of putting in his Holidays: And since, in spight of all I can say, People will give him great part of the Credit of making my Almanacks, ’tis but reasonable he should take some share of the Blame.</p>
<br><b>Benjamin Franklin</b> (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist<br><i>Poor Richard </i> (1737 ed.) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-0028#:~:text=As%20to%20the,of%20the%20Blame." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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"Brother J****n" is John Jerman, whose almanac Franklin had printed for several years, but who in 1737 moved to a different printer.
Weather, forecast, prediction, blame
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		<title>Richter, Jean-Paul -- Titan, Jubilee 31, cycle 122 [Schoppe] (1803) [tr. Brooks (1863)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will explain myself more clearly, &#8212; the Germans add, when they have explained themselves clearly. [Ich will mich deutlicher erklären, setzen die Deutschen hinzu, wenn sie sich deutlich erklärt haben.] (Source (German))]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will explain myself more clearly, &#8212; the Germans add, when they have explained themselves clearly.</p>
<p><em>[Ich will mich</em> deutlicher <em>erklären, setzen die Deutschen hinzu, wenn sie sich</em> deutlich <em>erklärt haben.]</em></p>
<br><b>Jean Paul Richter</b> (1763–1825) German writer, art historian, philosopher, littérateur [Johann Paul Friedrich Richter; pseud. Jean Paul]<br><i>Titan</i>, Jubilee 31, cycle 122 [Schoppe] (1803) [tr. Brooks (1863)] 
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(<a href="http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Jean+Paul/Romane+und+Erz%C3%A4hlungen/Titan/Vierter+Band/Einunddrei%C3%9Figste+Jobelperiode/122.+Zykel#:~:text=Ich%20will%20mich%20deutlicher%20erkl%C3%A4ren%2C%20setzen%20die%20Deutschen%20hinzu%2C%20wenn%20sie%20sich%20deutlich%20erkl%C3%A4rt%20haben.">Source (German)</a>)						</span>
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		<title>Thurber, James -- &#8220;Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ear Muffs,&#8221; New Yorker (20 Jun 1959)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 22:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair-trigger balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. Collected in Lanterns and Lances (1961).]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair-trigger balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. </p>
<br><b>James Thurber</b> (1894–1961) American humorist, cartoonist, writer<br>&#8220;Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ear Muffs,&#8221; <i>New Yorker</i> (20 Jun 1959) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1959/06/20/friends-romans-countrymen-lend-me-your-ear-muffs" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/lanternslances0000jame/page/44/mode/2up?q=%22precision+of+communication%22">Collected</a> in <i>Lanterns and Lances</i> (1961).						</span>
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		<title>Skeat, Walter William -- Notes and Queries, 6th Series, vol. 9 (1884-06-21)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I protest, for about the hundredth time, against the slipshod method of quoting a mere author&#8217;s name, without any indication of the work of that author in which the alleged quotation may be found. Let us have accurate quotations and exact references, wherever such are to be found. [&#8230;] A quotation without a reference is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I protest, for about the hundredth time, against the slipshod method of quoting a mere author&#8217;s name, without any indication of the work of that author in which the alleged quotation may be found. Let us have accurate quotations and exact references, wherever such are to be found. [&#8230;] A quotation without a reference is like a geological specimen of unknown locality.</p>
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<br><b>Walter William Skeat</b> (1835–1912) British philologist and cleric<br><i>Notes and Queries</i>, 6th Series, vol. 9 (1884-06-21) 
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		<title>~Other -- Alan Benner (Attributed)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perfectionist: One who takes infinite pains and gives them to others.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perfectionist: One who takes infinite pains and gives them to others.</p>
<br>(Other Authors and Sources)<br>Alan Benner (Attributed) 
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		<title>Hugo, Victor -- Victor Hugo&#8217;s Intellectual Autobiography [Postscriptum de ma Vie], &#8220;Thoughts,&#8221; sec. 3 (1901) [tr. O&#8217;Rourke (1907)]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 13:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. [Concision dans le style, précision dans la pensée, décision dans la vie.] (Source (French))]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.</p>
<p><em>[Concision dans le style, précision dans la pensée, décision dans la vie.]</em></p>
<br><b>Victor Hugo</b> (1802–1885) French writer, journalist, human rights activist, politician<br><i>Victor Hugo&#8217;s Intellectual Autobiography [Postscriptum de ma Vie]</i>, &#8220;Thoughts,&#8221; sec. 3 (1901) [tr. O&#8217;Rourke (1907)] 
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(<a href="https://www.dicocitations.com/citations/citation-98156.php">Source (French)</a>)



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		<title>Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Essay (1879-05), &#8220;The Truth of Intercourse,&#8221; Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 39</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. Collected in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, ch. 1, part 4 (1881)]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.</p>
<br><b>Robert Louis Stevenson</b> (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet<br>Essay (1879-05), &#8220;The Truth of Intercourse,&#8221; <i>Cornhill Magazine</i>, Vol. 39 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/cornhillmagazine39londuoft/page/584/mode/2up?q=%22difficulty+of+literature%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Virginibus_Puerisque_and_Other_Papers/Virginibus_Puerisque#:~:text=The%20difficulty%20of%20literature%20is%20not%20to%20write%2C%20but%20to%20write%20what%20you%20mean%3B%20not%20to%20affect%20your%20reader%2C%20but%20to%20affect%20him%20precisely%20as%20you%20wish.">Collected</a> in <i>Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers</i>, ch. 1, part 4 (1881)


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		<title>Vauvenargues, Luc de -- Reflections and Maxims [Réflexions et maximes] (1746) [tr. Lee (1903)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.</p>
<br><b>Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues</b> (1715–1747) French moralist, essayist, soldier<br><i>Reflections and Maxims [Réflexions et maximes]</i> (1746) [tr. Lee (1903)] 
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		<title>Rickover, Hyman -- (Attributed)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nature is not as forgiving as Christ. Quoted in Theodore Rockwell, The Rickover Effect, Part 4 &#8220;Upgrading Industry Quality (1955-1960),&#8221; &#8220;The Seawolf&#8221; (epigraph) (1992). Rockwell provides no citation, and I can find no other written source; it is likely a verbal catch phrase of Rickover&#8217;s.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nature is not as forgiving as Christ.</p>
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<br><b>Hyman Rickover</b> (1900–1986) Polish-American naval engineer, admiral [b. Chaim Gdala Rykower]<br>(Attributed) 
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Quoted in Theodore Rockwell, <i>The Rickover Effect</i>, Part 4 "Upgrading Industry Quality (1955-1960)," "The <i>Seawolf"</i> (epigraph)  (1992). Rockwell provides no citation, and I can find no other written source; it is likely a verbal catch phrase of Rickover's.						</span>
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		<title>Feynman, Richard -- The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I, 8-2 &#8220;Motion&#8221; (20 Oct 1961)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We cannot define anything precisely! If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, &#8220;You don&#8217;t know what you are talking about!&#8221;. The second one says, &#8220;What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We cannot define <i>anything</i> precisely! If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, &#8220;You don&#8217;t know what you are talking about!&#8221;. The second one says, &#8220;What do you mean by <i>know?</i> What do you mean by <i>talking?</i> What do you mean by <i>you?&#8221;</i> and so on.</p>
<br><b>Richard Feynman</b> (1918–1988) American physicist<br><i>The Feynman Lectures on Physics</i>, Volume I, 8-2 &#8220;Motion&#8221; (20 Oct 1961) 
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		<title>Aristotle -- Nicomachean Ethics [Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια], Book  1, ch.  3 (1.3.4) / 1094b.24ff (c. 325 BC) [tr. Ross (1908)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs. [πεπαιδευμένου γάρ ἐστιν ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον τἀκριβὲς ἐπιζητεῖν [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.</p>
<p>[πεπαιδευμένου γάρ ἐστιν ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον τἀκριβὲς ἐπιζητεῖν καθ᾽ ἕκαστον γένος, ἐφ᾽ ὅσον ἡ τοῦ πράγματος φύσις ἐπιδέχεται: παραπλήσιον γὰρ φαίνεται μαθηματικοῦ τε πιθανολογοῦντος ἀποδέχεσθαι καὶ ῥητορικὸν ἀποδείξεις ἀπαιτεῖν.]</p>
<br><b>Aristotle</b> (384–322 BC) Greek philosopher<br><i>Nicomachean Ethics [Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια]</i>, Book  1, ch.  3 (1.3.4) / 1094b.24ff (c. 325 BC) [tr. Ross (1908)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="http://classics.mit.edu//Aristotle/nicomachaen.1.i.html#:~:text=for%20it%20is%20the%20mark%20of%20an%20educated%20man%20to%20look%20for%20precision%20in%20each%20class%20of%20things%20just%20so%20far%20as%20the%20nature%20of%20the%20subject%20admits%3B%20it%20is%20evidently%20equally%20foolish%20to%20accept%20probable%20reasoning%20from%20a%20mathematician%20and%20to%20demand%20from%20a%20rhetorician%20scientific%20proofs." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Possibly the source of <a href="https://wist.info/aristotle/1333/">this spurious Aristotle quote</a>. (<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0053%3Abekker%20page%3D1094b%3Abekker%20line%3D20#:~:text=%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%85%20%CE%B3%CE%AC%CF%81%20%E1%BC%90%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BD%20%E1%BC%90%CF%80%E1%BD%B6%20%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%BF%E1%BF%A6%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD%20%CF%84%E1%BC%80%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B2%E1%BD%B2%CF%82%20%E1%BC%90%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%B6%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B5%E1%BF%96%CE%BD%20%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B8%E1%BE%BD%20%E1%BC%95%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD">Source (Greek)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>For the man of education will seek exactness so far in each subject as the nature of the thing admits, it being plainly much the same absurdity to put up with a mathematician who tries to persuade instead of proving, and to demand strict demonstrative reasoning of a Rhetorician.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8438/pg8438-images.html#:~:text=for%20the%20man%20of%20education%20will%20seek%20exactness%20so%20far%20in%20each%20subject%20as%20the%20nature%20of%20the%20thing%20admits%2C%20it%20being%20plainly%20much%20the%20same%20absurdity%20to%20put%20up%20with%20a%20mathematician%20who%20tries%20to%20persuade%20instead%20of%20proving%2C%20and%20to%20demand%20strict%20demonstrative%20reasoning%20of%20a%20Rhetorician.">Chase</a> (1847), ch. 1]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.<br>
[<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Treatise_on_the_Methods_of_Observation/jXRAy8YRU-gC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=aristotle+%22mark+of+an+instructed+mind+to+rest+satisfied%22&pg=PA129&printsec=frontcover">Source</a> (1852) - earliest version of this frequent translation I found.]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>A man who has been well trained will not in any case look for more accuracy than the nature of the  matter allows; for to expect exact demonstration from a rhetorician is as absurd as to accept from a mathematician a statement only probable.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Nicomachean_Ethics_of_Aristotle/m7RCAAAAIAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22been%20well%20trained%22">Williams</a> (1869)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For an educated person will expect accuracy in each subject only so far as the nature of the subject allows; he might as well accept probable reasoning from a mathematician as require demonstrative proofs from a rhetorician.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Nicomachean_Ethics_of_Aristotle/T04yAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22for%20an%20educated%20person%22">Welldon</a> (1892), ch. 2]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For it is the mark of an educated man to require, in each kind of inquiry, just so much exactness as the subject admits of: it is equally absurd to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician, and to demand scientific proof from an orator.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/peters-the-nicomachean-ethics#:~:text=for%20it%20is%20the%20mark%20of%20an%20educated%20man%20to%20require%2C%20in%20each%20kind%20of%20inquiry%2C%20just%20so%20much%20exactness%20as%20the%20subject%20admits%20of%3A%20it%20is%20equally%20absurd%20to%20accept%20probable%20reasoning%20from%20a%20mathematician%2C%20and%20to%20demand%20scientific%20proof%20from%20an%20orator.">Peters</a> (1893)]</blockquote><br>





<blockquote>For it is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness in each kind which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D3%3Asection%3D4#:~:text=for%20it%20is%20the%20mark%20of%20an%20educated%20mind%20to%20expect%20that%20amount%20of%20exactness%20in%20each%20kind%20which%20the%20nature%20of%20the%20particular%20subject%20admits.%20It%20is%20equally%20unreasonable%20to%20accept%20merely%20probable%20conclusions%20from%20a%20mathematician%20and%20to%20demand%20strict%20demonstration%20from%20an%20orator.">Rackham</a> (1934)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>For it is characteristic of a well-educated person to look for the degree of exactness in each kind of investigation that the nature of the subject itself allows. For it is evident that accepting persuasive arguments from a mathematician is like demanding demonstrations from a rhetorician.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nicomachean_Ethics/Rq3xAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR7&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22exactness%20in%20each%20kind%22">Reeve</a> (1948)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>For a well-schooled man is one who searches for that degree of precision in each kind of study which the nature of the subject at hand admits: it is obviously just as foolish to accept arguments of probability from a mathematician as to demand strict demonstrations from an orator.<br>
[tr. Ostwald (1962)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>For it is the mark of an educated man to seek as much precision in things of a given genus as their nature allows, for to accept persuasive arguments from a mathematician appears to be [as improper as] to demand demonstrations from a rhetorician.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Nicomachean_Ethics/pD3wCAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA4&printsec=frontcover&bsq=nature%20allows%20accept%20persuasive">Apostle</a> (1975)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For it is the mark of the trained mind never to expect more precision in the treatment of any subject than the nature of that subject permits; for demanding logical demonstrates from a teacher of rhetoric is clearly about as reasonable as accepting mere plausibility from a mathematician.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Nicomachean_Ethics/iBoqmEvavawC?gbpv=1&bsq=%22mark%20of%20the%20trained%20mind%22">Thomson/Tredennick</a> (1976)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Since it is the mark of an educated person to look in each area for only that degree of accuracy that the nature of the subject permits. Accepting persuasive arguments from a mathematician is like demanding demonstrations from a rhetorician.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Aristotle_Nicomachean_Ethics/A0ZpBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA60&printsec=frontcover&bsq=mark%20of%20an%20educated%20person">Crisp</a> (2000)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>For it is the mark of an educated person to search for the same kind of clarity in each topic to the extent that the nature of the matter accepts it. For it is similar to expect a mathematician to speak persuasively or for an orator to furnish clear proofs!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2018/09/22/nope-aristotle-did-not-say-it-is-the-mark-of-an-educated-mind-to-entertain-a-thought-without/#:~:text=for%20it%20is%20the%20mark%20of%20an%20educated%20person%20to%20search%20for%20the%20same%20kind%20of%20clarity%20in%20each%20topic%20to%20the%20extent%20that%20the%20nature%20of%20the%20matter%20accepts%20it.%20For%20it%20is%20similar%20to%20expect%20a%20mathematician%20to%20speak%20persuasively%20or%20for%20an%20orator%20to%20furnish%20clear%20proofs!">@sentantiq</a> (2018)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>For it belongs to an educated person to seek out precision in each genus to the extent that the nature of the matter allows: to accept persuasive speech from a skilled mathematician appears comparable to demanding demonstrations from a skilled rhetorician.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Aristotle_s_Nicomachean_Ethics/3JuePlN_03cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR5&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22belongs%20to%20an%20educated%20person%22">Bartlett/Collins</a> (2011)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Cowper, William -- The Task, Book 3, l. 187 (1785)</title>
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<p><em>[L&#8217;exactitude est le sublime des sots.]</em></p>
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		<title>Keynes, John Maynard -- (Misttributed)</title>
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<br><b>John Maynard Keynes</b> (1883–1946) English economist<br>(Misttributed) 
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Not attributed to Keynes until after his death. Actually from Carveth Read, <i>Logic, deductive and inductive</i> (1898): "It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong."
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