
The Limits of Reason
A Point of View
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Balfort's Philosophy of the Universe
Balfort wrote several major books philosophy. His first, published in 18 79, is called a defence of philosophic doubt. In it he argued that like every other branch of human knowledge, science was finally based on faith. He may have loved lady elco even as he mourned may littleton. We cannot know. What can be known is that balfort was open to the possibility that may littleton was trying to contact him after she died and assure him of her love. Do i believe that he and may littleton corresponded with one another across the abyss of death? No, i do not. Their consciousness is extinguished when their bodies die. The messages that were seemingly
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