Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
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Refuting a merely contentious argument — a description which applies to the arguments both of Melissus and of Parmenides: their premises are false and their conclusions do not follow.
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
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One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man’s judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness – that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.
But it is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. Society thus brands what is unpleasant as untrue, denying the conclusions of psychoanalysis with logical and pertinent arguments. These arguments originate from affective sources, however, and society holds to these prejudices against all attempts at refutation.
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It is not rational arguments but emotions that cause belief in a future life.