1. The Fixation of Belief by Charles Sanders Pierce
... 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, nonetheless, that government (and other social foundations) at last commands ... negated Ptolemy, demonstrating that the sun does not circle the earth. Newton, as well, gave a few exceptional hypotheses, which turned the exploratory wo...
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