Belief Quote by C. D. Broad

“... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.”

C. D. Broad

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A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is…

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...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only…

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I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged…

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Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

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Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact.

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