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The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

Charles Sanders Peirce
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We cannot begin with complete doubt.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Doubt
Charles Sanders Peirce (1991). “Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic”, p.55, UNC Press Books

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

Charles Sanders Peirce
Struggle, Doubt, Wish
Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.114, Indiana University Press

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