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- The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills…
- By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know,…
- All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward…
- Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high…
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