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The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

THE DILEMMA OF DETERMINISM 145

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Philosophies seek a rational world, 146. Determinism and Indeterminism defined, 149. Both are postulates of rationality, 152. Objections to chance considered, 153. Determinism involves pessimism, 159. Escape via Subjectivism, 164. Subjectivism leads to corruption, 170. A world with chance in it is morally the less irrational alternative, 176. Chance not incompatible with an ultimate Providence, 180.

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The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, Project Gutenberg eBook #26659

REFLEX ACTION AND THEISM 111 THE MORAL PHILOSOPHER AND THE MORAL LIFE 184