The Duns Scotus version has "exposed to torture" in place of the stick.
Avicenna “argued” for the law of non contradiction thusly: those who deny should be beaten till they admit that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten. Not persuaded, but I feel that a morally similar argument applies to fans of Billy Joel? #Philosophy
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Ok, to be precise (I just looked at the passage again): beaten or burned.
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If someone were to turn a staff into a snake that would not make me believe the law is true, even though I’d marvel at how he performed such a feat
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Argumentum ad lapidibus obruent
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