Justified Belief

Famous quotes containing the words justified and/or belief:

    Oppression has no logic—just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
    Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)

    Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)