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Meeting a friend in a corridor, Wittgenstein said: "Tell me, why do
people always say it was natural for men to assume that the sun went
round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend
said, "Well, obviously, because it just looks as if the sun is going
round the earth." To which the philosopher replied, "Well, what would
it have looked like if it had looked as if the earth was rotating?"
Tom Stoppard, "Jumpers" |
