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Updated: May 28, 2025
They illustrate what I once wrote of as the 'will to believe. In some of my lectures at Harvard I have spoken of what I call the 'faith-ladder, as something quite different from the sorites of the logic-books, yet seeming to have an analogous form. I think you will quickly recognize in yourselves, as I describe it, the mental process to which I give this name.
But examples of this 'primitive thought', when we come to analyse them, all seem to resolve themselves into one or other of the ordinary sorts of fallacy, as our own logic-books expound them. If the study of them proves anything at all, it is the familiar aphorism that, while there is only one right way of doing and thinking, there are countless ways of going wrong. But why make mistakes?
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