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| | Let Truth and Falsehood Grapple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | At least in embryo, the importance of falsehoods argument is found in all three of the classic English-language defences of free speech and toleration: John Milton's Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing (1644), John Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), and John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859). |
 | | The free expression of both truth and falsehood, according to Mill, is necessary for the promotion of knowledge, and the censorship of any opinion hampers this goal. |
 | | However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth. |
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