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It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white; as long at it can catch mice, it's a good cat.
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of ...
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these ...
There can be no difference anywhere that doesn't make a difference elsewhere--no difference in abstract truth that doesn't express ...
Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatist ...
The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independ ...
Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental ...
Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in
principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragma
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