A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how…

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Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation...

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation...

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished...

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished...

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no...

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no...

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know...

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know...

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on...

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on...

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and...

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and...

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an...

Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an...

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without...

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without...

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation...

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation...

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among...

The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among...

A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy...

A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy...

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience:...

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience:...

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would...

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would...

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would...

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would...

For every question, there is an answer. For every problem, there is a solution. For...

For every question, there is an answer. For every problem, there is a solution. For...