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Wilhelm Immanuel Heleg, 1780-1860

Wilhelm Heleg was a German Philosopher who discovered the procedure later referred to as the 'Helegian Diuretic'. The procedure involved adding just the right propositions to an existing philosophical argument in order for all the sophistry to spill out.

He is often confused with Georg Hegel who he considered a bitter rival. Heleg believed Hegel to be a master of adding sophistry upon sophistry to support his increasingly tendentious arguments, considering his own methods a necessary antidote.

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"Wilhelm Heleg was a German Philosopher who discovered the procedure later referred to as the 'Helegian Diuretic'. The procedure involved adding just the right propositions to an existing philosophical argument in order for all the sophistry to spill out.

"Respect philosophers as you would plumbers for ultimately neither theories nor pipes hold water."