_:vb7423070 "1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 5, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes\u00A0[\u2026], book II, London: [\u2026] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC:"@en . _:vb7423070 "To say truth, it is a meane full of uncertainty and danger."@en . _:vb7423069 . _:vb7423072 "Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean."@en . "1" . _:vb7423072 . _:vb7423072 "1860, William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics:"@en . _:vb7423070 . _:vb7423073 "2011 April 14, \u201CRival visions\u201D, in The Economist:"@en . _:vb7423073 . _:vb7423071 . _:vb7423069 "(now, chiefly, in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result. [from 14th c.]"@en . . _:vb7423071 "You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements."@en . _:vb7423071 "c. 1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Essays:"@en . _:vb7423073 "Mr Obama produced an only slightly less ambitious goal for deficit reduction than the House Republicans, albeit working from a more forgiving baseline: $4 trillion over 12 years compared to $4.4 trillion over 10 years. But the means by which he would achieve it are very different."@en .