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'The Will to Believe,' accordingly, is the title of my paper." James' central argument in "The Will to Believe" hinges on the idea that access to the evidence for whether certain beliefs are true depends crucially upon first adopting those beliefs without evidence.
Clifford's article provoked a spirited reply from the Harvard philosopher and psychologist William James. In his 1896 paper "The Will to Believe", James argued that there are times when it is permissible, or even obligatory, to form a belief even though we lack sufficient evidence for it. One sort of example he cites is "precursive faith", when ...
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.
The festivities aren’t limited to Thanksgiving Day. For an entire week leading up to the game, fans visiting the on-site 1919 Kitchen & Tap, which is open at the stadium year-round, can order a ...
Ever since Matt Gaetz resigned from the House — and subsequently withdrew his name from co n sideration to be President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general — questions have ...
A look back at how "48 Hours" covered the 1996 Christmastime murder of JonBenét Ramsey in 2002, and what her father John Ramsey says about the unsolved Colorado case nearly 28 years later.
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.
"The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life" was an essay by the philosopher William James, which he first delivered as a lecture to the Yale Philosophical Club, in 1891.