1. The Fixation of Belief by Charles Sanders Pierce
Depicting belief to be "of the nature of a habit ", Pierce rejects what he calls the method of tenacity, noting that numerous people lean toward satisfaction to truth and will maintain a strategic distance from uncertainty once they have settled upon a consoling belief; accordingly, periodic conviction is liable to coherent error. 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 plan...
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