Alexander Pruss's Blog

I was going to post the following as Deep Thoughts XLIII, in a series of posts meant to be largely tautologous or at least trivial statemen...

No one speaks about what cannot be spoken about.

The unknown is not very well known. [My son wrote this on my board while bored in my office.]

You cannot leave an empty room. [The idea behind this lovely tautology is from my daughter Clare.]

If you don't try, you won't fail.

Everybody is somebody.

The necessary is always possible.

Meeting the minimum requirements is always good enough. [This is a variant on XXXIV . There are times when we say things like "The min...

Everything is possible except the impossible.

"[T]here is no such thing as being too good." [note 1] [This is a counterpoint to this . Like it, it rests on ensuri...

The adequate is good enough. [If I wrote in a letter of recommendation that someone was an adequate candidate that would probab...

No one has proved the unprovable.

Only the impossible is not possible.

Only the eternal is forever. [Actually, this is only a necessary truth on some readings of "forever" and "eternal...

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Every effect has a cause. [Cf. Deep Thought VI .]

One cannot succeed without trying.

The inevitable never fails to arrive.

There is nothing quite like something incomparable.

There is something to be said for an irrefutable theory: It can't be refuted. [This isn't quite a tautology, because ...