It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
PhilosophyCritical thinkingBeliefEpistemologyEvidenceRationality
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.
PhilosophyCritical thinkingBeliefEpistemologyEvidenceRationality
Sometimes practical action must be taken despite limited evidence.
In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing 'unreal' is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is …
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impos…
For want of the apparatus of propositional functions, many logicians have been driven to the conclusion that there are unreal objects. It is argued, e.g., by M…
We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.
I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.