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Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.
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Mass
Decisions
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Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.
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History
Firsts
Law
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Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.
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Decision
Law
Mass
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If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
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Evil
Ifs
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Restrain
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Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
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Literature
Philosophy
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Reigning
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The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
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Doubt
Succeed
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If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
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Court
Philosophic
Theory
Appear
Ruled
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Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
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Wisdom
Flames
Textbooks
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To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
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Authority
Majority
People
Vast
Untrained
Vast Majority
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Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
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Hygiene
Philosophy
Strong
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Scientific
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The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
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Picture
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Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
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Religion
Accidents
Claims
Essence
Intolerance
Transcendentalism
Absolute
Cruel
Namely
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Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
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Distressing
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Idols
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Sober
Allow
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Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
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Distressing
Frequency
Idols
Literature
Past
Philosophy
Scientist
Sober
Allow
Lastly
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Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.
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Freedom
Men
Cities
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Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
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Belief
Conservatism
Destroyed
Value Of Life
Begin
Established
Beliefs
Fearing
Inherited
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All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed.
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Intelligence
Firsts
Logic
Two
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A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
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Attitude
Sympathy
Philosophy
Attitudes
Element
Entirely
Fundamental
Surely
Systems
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This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.
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Alternatives
Determine
Eye
Grounded
Almost All
Conservatives
Disconcerting
Revolutionaries
Profoundly
Scrutinized
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In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.
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Aim
Literature
Pointing
Rigor
Imply
Resembles
Respects
Scientific
Thus
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It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.
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Idealism
Opposing
Philosopher
Philosophy
Realism
Two
Assumed
Be True
False
Generally
Hopelessly
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Systems
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Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
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Travel
Achievement
Adventure
Guarantees That
Inevitability
Liberalism
Precarious
Life Good Always
Guarantee
No Guarantee
Regards
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Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
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Achievement
Adventure
Inevitability
Liberalism
Precarious
Life Good Always
Guarantee
No Guarantee
Regards
Situations
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It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.
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Circumstances
Determined
Diverse
Justify
Mind
Mortals
Thinking
Views
Adopt
Naturally
Minds
Philosophers
Reasons
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Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
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Attitude
Alternatives
Evidence
Liberalism
Plausible
Questioning
Seeking
Self
Support
Insists
Reject
Self-Evident
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The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
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Concern
Inquiry
Logical
Method
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Arrive
Exposition
Leads
Suppose
No Interest
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Primary
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By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a determinate picture of the existing world. We must eliminate some of the conflicting possibilities, and this can be brought about only by experiment and observation.
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Science
Conflict
Our World
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