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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

9108	From an impossibility anything follows [William of Ockham]
	Full Idea: From an impossibility anything follows ('quod ex impossibili sequitur quodlibet').
	From: William of Ockham (Summa totius logicae [1323], III.c.xxxvi)
	A reaction: The hallmark of a true logician, I suspect, is that this opinion is really meaningful and important to them. They yearn to follow the logic wherever it leads. Common sense would seem to say that absolutely nothing follows from an impossibility.