A Footnote on Practical Reason
We employ twelve good men and true to decide a question, we lay the facts before them with the greatest care, the “perfection of human reason” presides over the presentment, they hear, they go out and deliberate, they come to a unanimous opinion, and it is generally admitted that the parties to the suit might almost as well have tossed up a penny to decide! Such is man’s glory!
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1 min readMar 2, 2018
— Charles Sanders Peirce
Peirce: CP 1.626