What is Philosophy

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What is Philosophy
Holmes, Edmond Gore Alexander, 1850-1936
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If the thinker finds that purely imaginative hypo- theses are needed for the elaboration of his theory of things, he must not hesitate to supply them. If, for example, he finds it necessary to extend the range of life beyond its apparent limits, let him extend it freely and fearlessly. If he finds it necessary to postulate the immortality or the pre-exis- tence of the soul, let him boldly do so. If he finds it necessary to assume that he is as free as he feels himself to be, let him, in the str...ength of this feeling, break through the flimsy webs of question-begging arguments in which Necessism is ever striving to en- tangle his mind. If he finds it necessary to assume that there are other planes of exis- tence than the physical world, let him make the assumption without a moment's hesita- tion. He will of course put forward no hypo- thesis which can possibly be disproved ; and if he is wise he will not labour over-sedu- 74 What is Philosophy?
lously to prove what is unprovable, and what, as it happens, he is free to assume.


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