1. The Fixation of Belief by Charles Sanders Pierce
He composes hopefully, be that as it may, that "the social impulse is against" the survival of this strategy – since every person in the public arena is stood up to with the thoughts of different people, each one will permit that others' contradicting plans may be more substantial. He then enrolls the ideas of another great empiricist, Darwin, to demonstrate that the survival of the human species relies on this rival of ideas, and further advances that through survival we discover a technique for settling conviction suitable to the single person, as well as to the group. He notes,...
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