the ulti- mate ground of the quest for cognitive certainty is the need for security in the results of action. Men readily persuade them- selves that they are devoted to intellectual certainty for its own sake. Actually they want it because of its bearing on safeguard- ing what they desire and esteem. The need for protection and prosperity in action created the need for warranting the validity of intellectual beliefs.
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