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"What is meant by saying that my choice of which way to walk home…

Quote byWilliam James · 1842–1910

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Dilemma of Determinism (1884) p.155.

English (original)

"What is meant by saying that my choice of which way to walk home after the lecture is ambiguous and matter of chance?...It means that both Divinity Avenue and Oxford Street are called but only one, and that one either one, shall be chosen.

— William James

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