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Miriam Schoenfield claimed we shouldn’t worry about “irrelevant influences” on this action in a 2014 paper defending permissivism. (15[1]-5[1])An essay defending this action, which inspired F. C. S. Schiller’s argument that axioms are true because we need them to be, compares it to a man insisting that a woman loves him, thereby causing her to love him. An essay condemns this action by noting that a shipowner who sends a rickety ship on a transatlantic voyage is blameworthy whether or not it sinks. An essay arguing for this action states, “‘Do not (*) decide, but leave the question open’ is itself a decision.” A philosopher advocated doing this action to genuine options, (10[1])which are living, forced, and momentous, in an 1896 lecture responding to W. K. Clifford’s essay on “The Ethics of [this action].” (10[2])For 10 points, William James defended “The Will to” do what action, which titles a C. S. Peirce (“purse”) essay on its “Fixation”? ■END■

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