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... evidence . Assent in the face of awareness of a lack of supporting evidence is irrational , although there are indeed psychological causes in such cases for giving assent . The irrationality of unsupported beliefs is not at all ...
... evidence . Assent in the face of awareness of a lack of supporting evidence is irrational , although there are indeed psychological causes in such cases for giving assent . The irrationality of unsupported beliefs is not at all ...
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... evidence ; and it is the task of further inquiry to find other factual evidence which will increase or decrease the probability of such a theory . Evidence and scientific method Scientific method pursues the road of sys- tematic doubt ...
... evidence ; and it is the task of further inquiry to find other factual evidence which will increase or decrease the probability of such a theory . Evidence and scientific method Scientific method pursues the road of sys- tematic doubt ...
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... evidence , which must be weighed carefully and tested by the well - known canons of necessary and probable inference . It follows that the method of science is more stable , and more important to men of science , than any particular ...
... evidence , which must be weighed carefully and tested by the well - known canons of necessary and probable inference . It follows that the method of science is more stable , and more important to men of science , than any particular ...
Contents
Knowledge as recollection The divided line | 5 |
Causality Free Will and Determinism | 31 |
A defense of necessary connection | 40 |
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