 Scepticism, then, is not avoidance of option: it is option of a certain particular kind of risk. Better risk loss of truth than chance of error — that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is;...  The Irish Ecclesiastical Record - Sayfa 2671903Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | William James - 1912 - 402 sayfa
...truth than chance of error, — that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is ; he is backing...until 'sufficient evidence' for religion be found, is tanta* mount therefore to telling us, when in presence of the religious hypothesis, that to yield to... | |
 | William James - 1896 - 362 sayfa
...truth than chance of error, — that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is ; he is backing...believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the i field. To preach scepticism to us as a duty until 'sufficient evidence* for religion be found, is... | |
 | William James - 1896 - 406 sayfa
...truth than chance of error, — that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing...field against the religious hypothesis, just as the I believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the (field. To preach scepticism to us as a... | |
 | William James - 1896 - 394 sayfa
...truth than chance of -error, — that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He I~ actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, ji.st as the believer is backing the religious hypothe>s'vafcjainst the field. To preach scepticism... | |
 | 1898 - 698 sayfa
...Options which the intellect of the individual cannot resolve are within the field of freedom of belief. "To preach scepticism to us as a duty until sufficient evidence for religion is obtained, is tantamount therefore to telling us, when in the presence of the religious hypotheses,... | |
 | James Bissett Pratt - 1909 - 282 sayfa
...of truth than chance of error — that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is ; he is backing...religious hypothesis against the field. To preach skepticism to us as a duty until ' sufficient evidence ' for religion be found, is tantamount, therefore,... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1910 - 202 sayfa
...of truth than chance of error, — that is your faithvetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is ; he is backing...backing the religious hypothesis against the field. . . . It is not intellect against all passions, then ; it is only intellect with one passion laying... | |
 | William James - 1896 - 364 sayfa
...truth than chance of error, — that is your faith-vetoer's exact position.. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is ; he is backing...field. To preach scepticism to us as a duty until 1 sufficient evidence ' for religion be found, is tantamount therefore to telling us, when in presence... | |
 | Charles Harris - 1914 - 668 sayfa
...risk. Better risk loss of truth than chance of error — that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. To preach scepticism to us as a duty until 'sufficient evidence' for religion be found is tantamount to telling us, when in presence of the religious hypothesis, that to yield to our fear of its being... | |
 | James C. S. Wernham - 1987 - 148 sayfa
...example, is how he contrasts the sceptic and the believer. "He [the faith-vetoer] is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing...backing the religious hypothesis against the field. " lo If anything is, that is the language of the gaming-table. The believer is the gambler, and the... | |
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