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seemingly believable, but invalid arguments that display ingenuity in reasoning
- There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise.Book Eleven — 1812 (0% in)
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