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The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

9. The moral judgment may lead us to postulate as irreducible the

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contingencies of the world.
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1. Chapter 1 2. 152. Objections to chance considered, 153. Determinism 3. 225. When adopted they become social ferments, 226. Messrs. 4. 280. The good and the bad infinite, 284. Negation, 286. 5. 1. A living option is one in which both hypotheses are live ones. If 6. 2. Next, if I say to you: "Choose between going out with your umbrella 7. 3. Finally, if I were Dr. Nansen and proposed to you to join my North 8. 1. We cannot eat our cake and have it; that is, the only real 9. 2. A chasm is not a bridge in any utilizable sense; that is, no mere 10. 3. The continua, time, space, and the ego, are bridges, because they 11. 4. But they bridge over the chasms between represented qualities only 12. 5. This partial bridging, however, makes the qualities share in a 13. 7. But the same quality appears in many times and spaces. Generic 14. 8. What between different qualities jolts remain. {294} Each, as far 15. 9. The moral judgment may lead us to postulate as irreducible the 16. 10. Elements mutually contingent are not in conflict so long as they 17. 11. That there are such real conflicts, irreducible to any

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