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Explicitly addressing the question of inability to believe, Pascal argues that if the wager is valid, the inability to believe is irrational, and therefore must be caused by feelings: "your inability to believe, because reason compels you to [believe] and yet you cannot, [comes] from your passions."
Hold come what may is a phrase popularized by logician Willard Van Orman Quine. Beliefs that are "held come what may" are beliefs one is unwilling to give up, regardless of any evidence with which one might be presented. [1] Quine held that any belief can be held come what may, so long as one makes suitable adjustments to other beliefs.
As for which candidate they feel would be better for the U.S. economy, Americans seem to be almost evenly split — 44% believe Vice President Kamala Harris will be better for the economy, while ...
The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional [emphasis added], and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to focus their minds on the pursuit of science, literature, and ...
Democrats have one simple message to deliver: Republicans are responsible for everything that happens from now on. All the unintended consequences, government shutdowns and colossal failures are ...
Microsoft stock has fluctuated between $400 and $450 over the past 12 months. Microsoft and Apple have been rivals ever since Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both launched competing personal computer ...
Kant believed this principle was a categorical freedom, bound only by the free will as opposed to the Humean hypothetical freedom ("Free to do otherwise if I had so chosen"). [4] There are several ways of deriving the formula—for example, the argument that it is wrong to blame people for things that they cannot control (essentially phrasing ...
Exercise may help lower your dementia risk by about 20%, depending on the type, Malin says. “From this, it seems fair to suggest exercise, along with diet and mental activities, are foundational ...