The Discourses CHAPTER 6 SCRUTINIZING HEARSAY (p. 152)

22/6.1 — The statements passed from one person to another cannot but be subjected to careftil scrutiny. When a statement is repeated many times, as it is transmitted from one person to the next, white becomes black and black becomes white. Thus, a dog bears some resemblance to an ape, an ape to a monkey, and a monkey to a man, but the man only distantly resembles the dog. This is how the stupid commit enormous errors.

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Non Transitivité de la ressemblance (de la relation « ressemble à”