Opinion considers the opposition of what is true and false quite rigid, and, confronted with a philosophical system, it expects agreement or contradiction. And in an explanation of such a system, opinion still expects to find one or the other.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)

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