 ... question. When, therefore, we find ourselves entertaining an opinion about the basis of which there is a quality of feeling which tells us that to inquire into it would be absurd, obviously unnecessary, unprofitable, undesirable, bad form, or wicked,...  Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War - Page 44by Wilfred Trotter - 1916 - 213 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sociology - 1909 - 448 pages
...it is, therefore, a belief which may prove injurious to that capacity to foretell which is science. Opinions, on the other hand, which are acquired as...therefore, we have no sense of reluctance in admitting enquiry into them. That heavy bodies tend to fall to the earth and that fire burns fingers are truths... | |
 | Sociology - 1909 - 448 pages
...it is, therefore, a belief which may prove injurious to that capacity to foretell which is science. Opinions, on the other hand, which are acquired as...therefore, we have no sense of reluctance in admitting enquiry into them. That heavy bodies tend to fall to the earth and that fire burns fingers are truths... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - American literature - 1920 - 874 pages
...unnecessary, unprofitable, undesirable, bad form, or wicked, we may know that that opinion is a non-rational one, and probably, therefore, founded upon inadequate...evidence." Opinions, on the other hand, which are the result of experience or of honest reasoning do not have this quality of "primary certitude." I... | |
 | Nervous system - 1924 - 136 pages
...absurd, obviously unnecessary, unprofitable, or wicked, we may know that that opinion is a nonrational one, and probably, therefore, founded upon inadequate..."Opinions, on the other hand, which are acquired as the * Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War. result of experience alone do not possess the quality of... | |
 | William Alanson White - Mental health - 1924 - 142 pages
...absurd, obviously unnecessary, unprofitable, or wicked, we may know that that opinion is a nonrational one, and probably, therefore, founded upon inadequate..."Opinions, on the other hand, which are acquired as the * Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War. result of experience alone do not possess the quality of... | |
 | Roger Sherman Loomis - American prose literature - 1925 - 576 pages
...unnecessary, unprofitable, undesirable, bad form, or wicked, we may know that that opinion is a nonrational one, and probably, therefore, founded upon inadequate evidence. Opinions, on the other hand, which are the result of experience or of honest reasoning do not have this quality of "primary certitude." I... | |
 | New Thought - 1953 - 1224 pages
...would be absurd, obviously unnecessary, or wicked, we may know that that opinion is a non-rational one, and probably, therefore, founded upon inadequate...evidence." Opinions, on the other hand, which are the result of experience or of honest reasoning do not have this quality of "primary certitude." I... | |
 | David Inglis, John Bone, Rhoda Wilkie - Nature - 2005 - 360 pages
...or wicked, we may know that the opinion is a non-rational one, and probably, therefore, founded on inadequate evidence. Opinions, on the other hand,...true in the sense of being verifiable, but they are 307 unaccompanied by that profound feeling of truth which belief possesses, and therefore we have no... | |
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