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Apprehension Quote by John Stuart Mill

“We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received…” quote by John Stuart Mill
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“We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the received opinion being true, a conflict with the opposite error is essential to a clear apprehension and deep feeling of its truth. But there is a commoner case than either of these; when the conflicting doctrines, instead of being one true and the other false, share the truth between them.”

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