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ruzuzu commented on the word Münchhausen Trilemma
"The Münchhausen Trilemma (after Baron Münchhausen, who allegedly pulled himself and the horse on which he was sitting out of a swamp by his own hair), also called Agrippa's Trilemma (after Agrippa the Skeptic), is a philosophical term coined to stress the purported impossibility to prove any truth even in the fields of logic and mathematics."
--http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M%C3%BCnchhausen_Trilemma&oldid=496637680
June 15, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word Münchhausen Trilemma
Is this where the term 'Get agrippa on yourself' comes from?
June 15, 2012