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. β¨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867β1893), p.114, Indiana University Press
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