1. The Fixation of Belief by Charles Sanders Pierce
... , 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 truth as indicated by it engages instead of to the respectability of rationale; ... subsequently this methodology, which he calls the strategy for power, inescapably prompts its own particular logical fallacies. Pierce ... Having disregarded these methods for fixed belief,...
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