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Should We Have Good Reasons to Think Our Beliefs True?

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Bertrand Russell wrote that "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true." It seems as though few people heed such advice. Do you think that it is a good principle to adopt or not?


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