A certain mental patient was convinced that he was dead, so he was committed to the care of a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist had the man read an anatomy book and watch films to show him that dead men do not bleed. Then he took him into a room full of cadavers, where the man saw for himself that dead men do not bleed. \u201cAll right, I\u2019m convinced, dead men don\u2019t bleed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Then the doctor took a pin and poked the man, and a tiny drop of blood appeared. \u201cWell, what do you know,\u201d the man responded. \u201cDead men do bleed after all.\u201d1071<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery period of intellectual history has some dogma which is regarded at the time not as dogma, but merely as what is evident\u201d (James Cornman, Philosophical Problems and Arguments: An Introduction<\/i> [New York: Macmillan, 1982]).1072<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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