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Tyranny and Group Loyalties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Extract

William James in his Problems of Philosophy speaks about the Faith Ladder, enumerating a whole scale of standpoints individuals are likely to take with respect to a particular view of the world from “there is nothing absurd in a certain view of the world being true, nothing contradicting,” up to the remark “It must be true,” or “It shall be true, at any rate true for me.”

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1943

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