James's will to believe doctrine
GPTKB entity
Statements (18)
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| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:philosophy
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| gptkbp:criticizedFor |
gptkb:Bertrand_Russell
W.K. Clifford |
| gptkbp:field |
gptkb:philosophy
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| gptkbp:formedBy |
gptkb:William_James
1896 |
| gptkbp:hasConcept |
It is permissible to believe in certain hypotheses without prior evidence when the decision is momentous, forced, and live.
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| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
James's will to believe doctrine
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| gptkbp:influenced |
pragmatism
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| gptkbp:influencedBy |
empiricism
pragmatism |
| gptkbp:notableQuote |
Our passional nature not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its nature be decided on intellectual grounds.
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| gptkbp:opposedBy |
gptkb:William_Kingdon_Clifford
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| gptkbp:presentedBy |
The Will to Believe (essay)
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| gptkbp:relatedTo |
pragmatic theory of truth
faith and reason |
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Clifford's_principle
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| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
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