"And might there not also be some reader who would say 'I accept A and B as true, but I don't accept the Hypothetical?" "Certainly there might. He, also, had better take to football." "And neither of these readers," the Tortoise continued, "is as yet under any logical necessity to accept Z as true?" "Quite so," Achilles assented. "Well, now, I want you to consider me as a reader of the second kind, and to force me, logically, to accept Z as true." "A tortoise playing football would be -- " Achilles was beginning "-- an anomaly, of course"
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