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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Fact Skepticism

Fact-skepticism alone does not assure the advancement of justice,… its capacities for application are morally ambivalent, and… in order to serve… high purposes… it requires the extrinsic governance of a sympathetic intelligence and a humane conscience.
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Cahen Edmond Nathaniel. 1966. “Fact-Skepticism: An Unexpected Chapter” in Confronting injustice; the Edmond Cahn reader. Edited by Lenore L. Cahn. Foreword by Hugo L. Black. General introduction and prefatory chapter notes by Norman Redlich. Boston: Little, Brown.

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