 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Scepticism, while logically impeccable, is psychologically impossible, and there is an element of frivolous insincerity in any philos ophy which pretends to accept it. Moreover, if scepticism is to be theoretically defensible, it must reject all inferences from what is experienced; a partial scepticism, such as the denial of physical events experienced by no one, or a solipsism which allows events in my future or in my unremembered past, has no logical justification since it must admit principles of inference which lead to beliefs that it rejects
Source: Human Knowledge, 1948,
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