An idea from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

That limit ends in a harsh test for any book. In the 1930s a school of philosophers made a version of it their rule for what counts as meaningful. By the 1960s they had dropped it, partly because the rule fails its own test.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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