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Page 74
... Believe . " He states somewhere that it might better have been called " The Right to Believe . " His aim is to point out that , in certain cases , where the evidence is insuf- ficient to justify belief on " rational " grounds , there ...
... Believe . " He states somewhere that it might better have been called " The Right to Believe . " His aim is to point out that , in certain cases , where the evidence is insuf- ficient to justify belief on " rational " grounds , there ...
Page 84
... believe that our experi . ments and studies and discussions must put us in a continually better and better position toward it ; and on this line we agree to fight out our thinking lives . But if a skeptic asks us how we know all this ...
... believe that our experi . ments and studies and discussions must put us in a continually better and better position toward it ; and on this line we agree to fight out our thinking lives . But if a skeptic asks us how we know all this ...
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... believe what we will " you apply to the case of some patent superstition ; and the faith you think of is the faith defined by the schoolboy when he said : " Faith is when you believe something that you know ain't true . " I can only ...
... believe what we will " you apply to the case of some patent superstition ; and the faith you think of is the faith defined by the schoolboy when he said : " Faith is when you believe something that you know ain't true . " I can only ...
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