| 1234567 | author: Alfred North Whiteheadcontent: In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed  clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities  of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as the  mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises  and float on gossamers for deduction.id: b7e1d0ef-c0b7-4b9f-8ff3-5f3ae2d531c0
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