Episode 164: Choosing to Believe
Very Bad Wizards
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William James Essay on Justification of Faith
William James gave a talk on justification by faith in 1896. He says there are certain kinds of beliefs that we can hold and not be irrational. And not make some sort of moral error, even if we don't have sufficient evidence to believe it's true. One of the distinctions he makes is between live hypotheses and dead hypotheses.
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