All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
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Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.Charles Sanders Peirce
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
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The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.
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It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
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Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
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