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Morris Raphael Cohen

Morris Raphael Cohen (Belarusian: Мо́ррис Рафаэ́ль Ко́эн; July 25, 1880 – January 28, 1947) was an American philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. He was father to Felix S. Cohen and Leonora Cohen Rosenfield.

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Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

Coined, Flame, Flames, Textbooks, Wisdom

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

Achievement, Adventure, Guarantee, Guarantees That, Take, Travel

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Cruel, Essence, Grow, Intolerance, Religion, Transcendentalism

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

Adopted, Inquiry, Logical, Philosopher, Philosophers, Premises

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

Business, Done, Doubt, Raising, Succeed

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.

Act, Adopt, Impossible, Mind, Thinking, Views

By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a determinate picture of the existing world. We must eliminate some of the conflicting possibilities, and this can be brought about only by experiment and observation.

Altogether, Conflict, Enable, Our World, Science, World

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.

Decision, Decisions, Law, Mass

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Distressing, Idols, Past, Philosophy, Resurrected, Sober

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

Authority, Majority, People, Vast

All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed.

Deductible, Explained, Firsts, Intelligence, Part, Two

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

Begin, Belief, Conservatism, Fearing, Life, Value Of Life

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

Draws, Logic, Philosopher, Picture, Pure, World

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Claims, Effective, Evil, Ifs, Power