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FIG. 9. By his own hair. The Munchhausen trilemma, after Hans Albert (1968) and the older trilemma of Agrippa: every attempt to justify a claim ends in a circle, an infinite regress, or an arbitrary stop. Plates: Theodor Hosemann's illustrations to the Baron Munchhausen tales (1840s) and a Gustave Dore bust, from Wikimedia Commons, public domain. The swamp is a dot field of heights; the point of attention pushes it open. Credits.