A topic within Epistemology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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William Kingdon Clifford
It is wrong always, everywhere and for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence, because careless believing corrodes the whole community's habits of enquiry.
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Where a choice between hypotheses is live, forced and momentous and evidence cannot settle it, a person is entitled to let passional nature decide rather than wait in suspended judgement.
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