David Stove, Darwinian Fairy Tales (2007)
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Kant's 'discovery' went thus. Any property that a real x had, an imaginary x could have, and any property that an imaginary x could have, a real x could have. So Existence is not a property. (Hearty applause, maintained steadily for 200 years so far.)
— David Stove
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Kant's 'discovery' went thus. Any property that a real x had, an imaginary x could have, and any property that an imaginary x could have, a real x could have. So Existence is not a property. (Hearty applause, maintained steadily for 200 years so far.)" in the context of "David Stove, Darwinian Fairy Tales (2007)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Immanuel Kant" (Quotes about Kant: Alphabetized by author )
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