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It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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