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Bill Watterson, last line of the final Calvin and Hobbes strip, published December 31, 1995
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Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
jonathan swiftOne of the first major steps in the direction of modern skepticism came through the victory of Occam over Aquinas in a controversy about language. The statement that modi essendi were replaced by modi significandi et intelligendi, or that ontological referents were abandoned in favor of pragmatic significations, describes broadly the change in philosophy which continues to our time. From Occam to Bacon, from Bacon to Hobbes, and from Hobbes to contemporary semanticists, the progression is clear: ideas become psychological figments, words become useful signs.
richard weaverHobbes clearly proves that every creature lives in a state of war by nature.
jonathan swift