But I suspect that some appeal to such a mean or standard is really far from uncommon, and that if we could draw out into clearness the conceptions latent in the judgments of the comparatively uncultivated, we should find that there were various classes of cases in which this mean was naturally employed.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn
Such a mode of statement itself reveals the impossibility of any sharp distinction between the immanent and the transcendent.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith
It seems a matter of seconds, I really couldn't say.
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission
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