...truth is to the believer scepticism. When, therefore, we entertain an opinion whose basis involves a quality of feeling which tells us that to inquire into it would be absurd, obviously unnecessary, wicked, etc., that opinion is a nonrational one. This feeling of primary certitude is due to gregariousness....

...be met by contempt, disapproval or condemnation, according to the nature of the belief in question. When, therefore, we find ourselves entertaining an...there is a quality of feeling which tells us that to enquire into it would be absurd, obviously unnecessary, unprofitable, undesirable, bad form or wicked,...

...be met by contempt, disapproval or condemnation, according to the nature of the belief in question. When, therefore, we find ourselves entertaining an...there is a quality of feeling which tells us that to enquire into it would be absurd, obviously unnecessary, unprofitable, undesirable, bad form or wicked,...

...be met by contempt, disapproval, or condemnation, according to the nature of the belief in question. When, therefore, we find ourselves entertaining an...undesirable, bad form, or wicked, we may know that that opinion is a non-rational one, and probably, therefore, founded upon inadequate evidence. Opinions,...

...able. As Trotter puts it, the former are distinguished by a feeling of certitude and a belief that it would be absurd, obviously unnecessary, unprofitable, undesirable, bad form or wicked to inquire into them. The latter lack this feeling of certitude and feeling of profound truth and there...

...be met by contempt, disapproval, or condemnation, according to the nature of the belief in question. When, therefore, we find ourselves entertaining an...undesirable, bad form, or wicked, we may know that that opinion is a non-rational one, and probably, therefore, founded upon inadequate evidence . Opinions,...

...reactions produced by the contact of a given individual temperament with a given environment. When we find ourselves entertaining an opinion about the...undesirable, bad form, or wicked, we may know that that opinion is a non-rational one, and probably, therefore, founded upon inadequate evidence." Thus...

...in Peace and War." Published by T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., London, 1916. entertained with a feeling that it would be absurd, obviously unnecessary, unprofitable, undesirable, bad form, or wicked to inquire into it, then we know that the opinion in question is held instinctively and not as the...

...be met by contempt, disapproval, or condemnation, recording to the nature of the belief in question. When, therefore, we find ourselves entertaining an...undesirable, bad form, or wicked, we may know that that opinion is a non-rational one, and probably, therefore, founded upon inadequate evidence." Opinions,...

...be met by contempt, disapproval, or condemnation, according to the nature of the belief in question. When, therefore, we find ourselves entertaining an...undesirable, bad form, or wicked, we may know that that opinion is a nonrational one, and probably, therefore, founded upon inadequate evidence.1 Opinions,...