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Winston Churchill once said that true genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Witnesses to the murder gave conflicting reports of what happened, so police are still investigating.

Argentina and Britain went to war over their conflicting territorial claims to the Falkland Islands.

Conflicting reports prompted the director to reconsider her position.

With our present imperfect knowledge and conflicting opinions, it is impossible to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion, and the whole question requires careful and impartial investigation.

They were conflicting rumors.

Reports on the actual operation of the rods support conflicting opinions-as might be expected from the fact that the hailstorm is a decidedly erratic phenomenon.

In vain did they seek for priestly interference for the purpose of establishing peace between the conflicting parties.

Before attempting to decide between these conflicting views, it may be wise to consider the term “Achæan.

When he sits down to write a letter to the parents of Heinrich, who like his own son had fallen in France, his mind is torn by conflicting emotions, but finally these are resolved into one common chord and he writes: Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

Tufts (1908) is not only a practical textbook admirably clear in expounding the conflicting theories and eminently fair in criticizing them, but it would be useful to any reader for broadening the mind and pointing the proper way of approach to modern problems.

Now we cannot help believing what we see to be true, but we can help doing what we see to be right or wise, and in fact often do what we know to be wrong or unwise: thus we are forced to notice the existence in us of irrational springs of action, conflicting with our knowledge and preventing its practical realisation: and the very imperfectness of the connexion between our practical judgment and our will impels us to seek for more precise knowledge as to the nature of that connexion.

We cannot, of course, regard as valid reasonings that lead to conflicting conclusions; and I therefore assume as a fundamental postulate of Ethics, that so far as two methods conflict, one or other of them must be modified or rejected.

The impulses or principles from which the different methods take their rise, the different claims of different ends to be rational, are admitted, to some extent, by all minds: and as along with these claims is felt the need of harmonising them-since it is, as was said, a postulate of the Practical Reason, that two conflicting rules of action cannot both be reasonable-the result is ordinarily either a confused blending, or a forced and premature reconciliation, of different principles and methods.

At the same time I hope to afford aid towards the construction of such a system; because it seems easier to judge of the mutual relations and conflicting claims of different modes of thought, after an impartial and rigorous investigation of the conclusions to which they logically lead.

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