Early on, the author distinguishes between options that are live or dead, forced or avoidable, and momentous or trivial - and he then claims that only forced, living, and momentous choices are "genuine."
prompt Pacific Ocean)  At one point, this work employs the term Grenzbegriff, defined as "the infinitely remote ideal of our thinking life," to describe objective evidence. At another point, the work asks if it's possible to make ourselves think that two one dollar bills in our pocket are really two hundred-dollar bills. Early on, the author distinguishes between options that are live or dead, forced or avoidable, and momentous or trivial - and he then claims that only forced, living, and momentous choices are "genuine." Another distinction is between empiricist and absolutist ways of thinking, and though the author claims that we are absolutists by nature, he says we should overcome this tendency. Partly a response to W.K. Clifford, this work was published in a namesake collection "with other essays in popular philosophy." FTP, name this essay by William James, which argues that it is rational to formulate hypotheses of a religious nature.
prompt Pacific Ocean)  At one point, this work employs the term Grenzbegriff, defined as "the infinitely remote ideal of our thinking life," to describe objective evidence.
“The {Will to Believe}”