"Tenability" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the question of the relation of man to the lower animals resolves itself, in the end, into the larger question of the tenability, or untenability of Mr. Darwin's views. But here we enter upon difficult ground, and it behoves us to define our exact position with the ...
— On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals • Thomas H. Huxley
... not suggesting that the non-existence of the past should be entertained as a serious hypothesis. Like all sceptical hypotheses, it is logically tenable, but uninteresting. All that I am doing is to use its logical tenability as a help in the analysis of ...
— The Analysis of Mind • Bertrand Russell |
