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It Is Undesirable To Believe A Proposition When There Is No Ground Whatever For Supposing It True.
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever
for supposing it true.
-- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967), "Skeptical Essays"
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