Full Idea
There comes a time not to go on following where the argument leads!
Gist of Idea
We shouldn't always follow where the argument leads!
Source
comment on Plato (The Laws [c.349 BCE], 667b) by David Lewis - Against Structural Universals 'Variant'
Book Reference
Lewis,David: 'Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology' [CUP 1999], p.100
A Reaction
Lewis is a fine one to talk, since he follows argument that take him past innumerable incredulous stares of onlookers.
Related Idea
Idea 241 We ought to follow where the argument leads us [Plato]