It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these…

William James
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It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. ✨ Some Problems of Philosophy.
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