“If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.”
Source: Lover Unbound
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From the poems written in English
“Then it is impossible to get an honest answer from you.”
“If by ‘honest answer’ you mean for me to say what you want me to say, whether or not it is true, then I would say that you are correct.”
Source: Jack of Shadows (1971), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
Collected Works, Vol. 24, pp. 398–421.
Collected Works
“Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.”
The Road to Infinity (1979), p. 170
General sources
Variant: When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Source: The Sign of Four
“If you eliminate all the words of a subject, you have eliminated the subject.”
Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)
Context: As one learns the language of a subject, one is also learning what the subject is.... what we call a subject consists mostly, if not entirely, of its language. If you eliminate all the words of a subject, you have eliminated the subject.
“Impossible questions require impossible answers.”
Alexander, sec. 54
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