“If, in order to answer the doubts started, new principles of philosophy must be laid, are not these doubts themselves very useful? Are they not preferable to blind and ignorant assent?”
— David Hume, “Letter to Gilbert Elliot (March 10, 1751)”, The Letters of David Hume
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