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In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasio…
William Kingdon Clifford The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays actions belief credulity danger evidence
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William Kingdon Clifford The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays belief evidence reason wrong
Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence. We all suffer severely enou…
William Kingdon Clifford belief doubt evidence
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrume…
William Kingdon Clifford Lectures and Essays by the Late William … aim events evidence experience inference
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act …
William Kingdon Clifford Lectures and Essays by the Late William … action error fear guide progress
… scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no scientific subjects. The subject of science is the human universe; that is to say…
William Kingdon Clifford Lectures and Essays by the Late William … everything relation science scientific subjects
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I …
William Kingdon Clifford myself great man
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and …
William Kingdon Clifford great believe testing
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.
William Kingdon Clifford
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.
William Kingdon Clifford

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Unscramble WILLIAM7-letter words that start with W7-letter words that end in M7-letter words containing IL7-letter words containing AM7-letter words with W and I
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
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AND STILL ___
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