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Münchhausen

[mynkh-hou-zuhn]

noun

Karl Friedrich Hi·e·ro·ny·mus

[kahrl free-drikh hee-ey-roh-ny-moos] , Baron von

[fuhn] , 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.

English, Mun·chau·sen

[muhn-chou-zuhn, muhnch-hou-, muhn-chaw-] .

Related forms

Mun·chau·sen·ism, noun

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"If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believed ... then he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen."

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