“ But the shock of [different, irreconcilable] opinions will soon lead men to rest on preferences of a far more universal nature. Take, for example, the doctrine that man only acts selfishly—that is, form the consideration that acting in one way will afford him more pleasure than acting in another. This rest on no fact in the world, but it has had a wide acceptance as being the only reasonable theory.
— Peirce, “The Fixation of Belief”
