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The Will to Believe" is a lecture by William James, first published in 1896, [1] which defends, in certain cases, the adoption of a belief without prior evidence of its truth. In particular, James is concerned in this lecture about defending the rationality of religious faith even lacking sufficient evidence of religious truth.
While Pflock continued to believe in the existence of alien spacecraft, he ruled out Roswell, saying it was a "case of mistaken identity". [11] After the report was made public, Pflock drew the ire of the UFO community, who called him, derisively, a "debunker". [10]
The will to power (German: der Wille zur Macht) is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans.
“They didn’t want to believe the truth, that I was innocent,” he said. California has since changed its laws regarding juvenile interrogations, Hochman said. Last year, ...
We believe in Santa and we never see him, just the half-eaten cookies and gifts he leaves behind. We’ve seen a million pictures of Santa with his puffy cheeks and snowy white beard. Yet no child ...
It was later included in the collection, The Will to Believe and other Essays in Popular Philosophy. He drew a distinction between three questions in ethics : psychological , metaphysical , casuistic .
“I believe the business-friendly policies from [the] government along with a better-than-expected productivity contribution from AI will generate strong returns,” says Michael K. Farr ...
But he goes on to say that a more important and global kind of free thought is the freedom of pressure to believe any specific ideas, that one be allowed to have and express any opinion without penalty. He notes that this is not allowed in any country at all, with the possible exception of the (pre-communist) Republic of China.