Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 607 | She shuddered. |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 604 | "Are they not insane?" "By View more quotes about carefully">carefully chosen definitions, I suppose we could define them into sanity or into insanity, depending on whether we approved of them or not, but it is difficult to derive satisfaction from victories which are achieved by the cheap device of surreptitiously altering a conceptual structure". |
| 17 | 605 | "I think they are mad, insane," she said. |
| 17 | 606 | "They are at least mistaken," I said, "and, in many respects, are different from us". |
| 17 | 607 | She shuddered. |
| 17 | 608 | "The most pernicious beliefs," I said, "are not actually beliefs at all, but, better put, pseudobeliefs. |
| 17 | 609 | The pseudobelief is not assailable by evidence or reason, even theoretically. |
| 17 | 610 | Its security from refutation is the result of its cognitive vacuity. |
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"Are they not insane?" "By carefully chosen definitions, I suppose we could define them into sanity or into insanity, depending on whether we approved of them or not, but it is difficult to derive satisfaction from victories which are achieved by the cheap device of surreptitiously altering a conceptual structure".
"I think they are mad, insane," she said.
"They are at least mistaken," I said, "and, in many respects, are different from us".
She shuddered.
"The most pernicious beliefs," I said, "are not actually beliefs at all, but, better put, pseudobeliefs.
The pseudobelief is not assailable by evidence or reason, even theoretically.
Its security from refutation is the result of its cognitive vacuity.
- (Savages of Gor)