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... hypothesis ? Broadly it is this : Science says things are : morality says some things are better than other things : religion says that the best things are the more eternal things , the things in the universe that throw the last stone ...
... hypothesis ? Broadly it is this : Science says things are : morality says some things are better than other things : religion says that the best things are the more eternal things , the things in the universe that throw the last stone ...
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... hypothesis is a live hypothesis which may be true . We are now in possession of the essentials of James's posi- tion . We know what he means by a genuine option between rival hypotheses . We know the principle by which he would justify ...
... hypothesis is a live hypothesis which may be true . We are now in possession of the essentials of James's posi- tion . We know what he means by a genuine option between rival hypotheses . We know the principle by which he would justify ...
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... hypothesis in metaphysics which makes the everyday world an unaccountable puzzle ; any hypothesis which , if followed out , would require some other sort of everyday world than the one we have any such hypothesis is unsatis- factory ...
... hypothesis in metaphysics which makes the everyday world an unaccountable puzzle ; any hypothesis which , if followed out , would require some other sort of everyday world than the one we have any such hypothesis is unsatis- factory ...
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