1. The Fixation of Belief by Charles Sanders Pierce
Pierce writes that the scientific method presumes that "realities affect our senses according to regular laws, and, though our sensations are as different as our relations to the objects, yet, by taking advantage of the laws of perception, we can ascertain by reasoning how things really are, and any man will be led to the one true conclusion." ... In the metaphysical sense, possibly, one day when you drop a ball it's going to go up rather than down. ...
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