Over Against Any Cognition, There Is An

There Never Was A Sounder Logical Maxim Of Scientific Procedure Than Ockham's Razor: Entia Non Sunt Multiplicanda Praeter Necessitatem. That Is To Say; Before You Try A Complicated Hypothesis, You Should Make Quite Sure That No Simplification Of It Will Explain The Facts Equally Well.

Mere Imagination Would Indeed Be Mere Trifling; Only No Imagination Is Mere .

Over Against Any Cognition, There Is An Unknown But Knowable Reality; But Over Against All Possible Cognition, There Is Only The Self-contradictory. In Short, Cognizability (in Its Widest Sense) And Being Are Not Merely Metaphysically The Same, But Are Synonymous Terms.

The Essence Of Belief Is The Establishment Of A Habit; And Different Beliefs Are Distinguished By The Different Modes Of Action To Which They Give Rise.

We Cannot Begin With Complete Doubt.