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The Ethics of Belief

by William Clifford

This is an essay on decision biases and a critique on prejudices, neatly written and thought provoking.

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English

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English

Published In

1876

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William Kingdon Clifford was an English mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford alg...

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