{"id":7618,"date":"2014-10-28T05:28:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T05:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/28\/if-you-understood-me-you-would-agree-with-me\/"},"modified":"2014-10-28T05:28:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T05:28:29","slug":"if-you-understood-me-you-would-agree-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/28\/if-you-understood-me-you-would-agree-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Understood Me, You Would Agree with Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, <em>The Waste Books<\/em>, tr. R. J. Hollingdale, New York Review Books, 1990, p. 204, Notebook K, Aph. #84:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">To call a proposition into question all that is needed is very often merely to fail to understand it.&#0160; Certain gentlemen have been all too ready to reverse this maxim, and to assert that we fail to understand their propositions if we call them into question.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>Sehr gut, Herr Lichtenberg!&#0160; Sehr treffend!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/10\/why-lichtenberg-is-not-on-facebook.html\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/305189720_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/10\/why-lichtenberg-is-not-on-facebook.html\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Why Lichtenberg is not on Facebook<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books, tr. R. J. Hollingdale, New York Review Books, 1990, p. 204, Notebook K, Aph. #84: To call a proposition into question all that is needed is very often merely to fail to understand it.&#0160; Certain gentlemen have been all too ready to reverse this maxim, and to assert that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/28\/if-you-understood-me-you-would-agree-with-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If You Understood Me, You Would Agree with Me!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,677,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-lichtenberg-georg","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}