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How do you cite a quote when the origin of the quote isn't exactly known?
using the question "if a tree falls in the forest" in an essay but I can't find the source of the quote anywhere, just the source of a similar phrasing, but they didn't come up with it. So how do I cite it so as not to plagiarise? In MLA.
Yeah buddy do you read questions? I'm using a philosophical question on metaphysics for an analogy in my paper, but the source of the quote is disputable. I'm asking how to cite it then. There are MLA guidelines for unknown authors but not disputed authors. Don't be such a jerk, go take a nap or something and don't let something you misunderstood on the internet bug you so much. Geeze.
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- Anonymous6 years ago
You don't. Are you one of those morons who grabs some random "quote" off of a stupid "quote website" or some other moron's Instagram? And there is no citation for the quote? Then you don't even know that it was actually said by the person whose name appears after the quote.
Anyway, if you didn't get the "quote" from its actual source, you shouldn't be using it in any kind of essay in which you need to cite stuff anyway. If you didn't read it in context, you probably don't understand what it actually means.
Grabbing quotes off of stupid Instagram photos is not "research."
- ZoozuLv 76 years ago
In my opinion, the tree falling in the forest has become such a well-known philosophical question that it would not require a citation. However, Wikipedia finds an early, if not the first, use of this question in a work by Berkeley. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a...
